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I am the very model of a modern Major-General,<br><br />
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,<br><br />
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical<br><br />
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;<br><br />
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,<br><br />
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,<br><br />
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,<br><br />
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.<br><br />
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;<br><br />
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:<br><br />
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,<br><br />
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.<br><br />
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I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;<br><br />
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,<br><br />
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,<br><br />
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;<br><br />
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,<br><br />
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!<br><br />
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,<br><br />
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.<br><br />
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,<br><br />
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus' uniform:<br><br />
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,<br><br />
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.<br><br />
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In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",<br><br />
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle[*] from a javelin,<br><br />
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,<br><br />
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",<br><br />
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,<br><br />
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—<br><br />
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—<br><br />
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee.<br><br />
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For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,<br><br />
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;<br><br />
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,<br><br />
I am the very model of a modern Major-General. <br><br />
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