i am growing a glorious garden
by jack prelutsky

i am growing a glorious garden
resplendent with trumpets and flutes.
i am pruning euphonium bushes.
i am watering piccolo shoots.
my tubas and tambourines flourish,
surrounded by saxaphone reeds.
i am planting trombones and pianos,
and sowing sweet sousaphone seeds.

i have cymbals galore in my garden,
staid oboes in orderly rows.
there are flowering fifes and violas
in the glade where the glockenspiel grows.
there are gongs and guitars in abundance.
there are violins high on the vine,
and an arbor of harps by the bower
where the cellos and clarinets twine.

my bassoons are beginning to blossom
as my zithers and mandolins bloom.
my castanets happily chatter.
my kettle drums merrily bloom.
the banjos that branch by the bugles
play counterpoint with a kazoo.
come visit my glorious garden
and hear it play music for you.









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