I Am The Very Model Of A

When You Are Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache, And Repose Is Tabooed By Anxiety, I Conceive You May Use Any Language You Choose To Indulge In Without Impropriety.

It's True I've Got No Shirts To Wear; It's True My Butcher's Bill Is Due; It's True My Prospects All Look Blue - But Don't Let That Unsettle You.

See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot, For A Is Happy-b Is Not. Yet B Is Worthy, I Dare Say, Of More Prosperity Than A.

Isn't Your Life Extremely Flat,with Nothing To Grumble At?

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-general.