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General. Yes, I am a Major-General !
All. You are! Hurrah for the Major-General !
General. And it is a glorious thing to be a Major-General I
All. It is! Hurrah for the Major-General !
Song — Major General.
I am the very pattern of a modern major-general :
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical ;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical ;
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical ;
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news —
(Bothered for next rhyme.) Lot o' news — lot o' news —
(Struck with an idea.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse;
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical ;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical ;
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical ;
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news —
(Bothered for next rhyme.) Lot o' news — lot o' news —
(Struck with an idea.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse;
(Joyfully.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!
All.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!
General.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus ;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous ;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern major-gineral
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous ;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern major-gineral
All.
In short in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern major-gineral !
He is the very model of a modern major-gineral !
General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics; I've a pretty taste for paradox —
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus;
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies;
I know the croaking chorus from the "Frogs of Aristophanes;"
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore —
(Bothered for next rhyme.) Din afor-e? din afore? din afore? —
(Struck with am idea.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore,
(Joyously.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense. Pinafore.
I answer hard acrostics; I've a pretty taste for paradox —
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus;
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies;
I know the croaking chorus from the "Frogs of Aristophanes;"
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore —
(Bothered for next rhyme.) Din afor-e? din afore? din afore? —
(Struck with am idea.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore,
(Joyously.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense. Pinafore.
