Spraying the Budworm
Come people all both great and small Give heed to what I say Concerning those who do intend Our forest to spray With some man-made insecticide The budworm to destroy At this they never will succeed No matter how they try. The budworm is beyond control This surely they must know Most every tree in all the land Their blighted limbs doth show Their efforts will be all in vain This insect for to kill They never could control the pest Why do they think they will. Some years ago the CNR Their right-of-way did spray Who gave permission this to Is more than we can say It killed the trees and all the plants The birds and rabbits too Someone sure gave permission Or this they would not do. Five horses from this place Did die from grass they ate When grazing by the railway track Twas there they met their fate These poor dumb things grazed on the grass Where they grazed every year No thinking man with knowledge blest Would take their lives so dear. That summer countless birds did die And rabbits old and young We saw them by the hundreds lie Birds who so often sung For us when we were children But now they all are gone Victims of man's stupidity No more we'll hear them sing. I'm sure we all remember well How nice it used to be When we could hear the birdies sing And watch them in the tree But now our woods are silent Not a songbird can we hear O how could man so thoughtless be Or did they really care. They'd be no need to spray our trees If the birds will still around They would take care of all the grubs We'd have to aftermath to fear When drinking from our streams But now they'll be polluted And nobody cares it seems. It's sad to see how we can mar The earth God made for man And gave us knowledge to protect All nature in our land If we won't heed the warning given If nature we defy And man persists in doing wrong Himself he will destroy! By Bramwell Quinton, Charleston
Last Modified: Tuesday, 24-Aug-1999 21:17:56 NDT