Expert: Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian - 10/23/2009

Question
I would like to identify a poem I learned in Junior High School.  What I remember of the verses is:  Somebody said it couldn´t be done, but I with a chuckle replied, that maybe it couldn´t but I would be one, who wouldn´t say so ´til I tried.  So I started right in, with a bit of a grin, on my face if I worried I hid it.  I started to sing, as I tackled the thing, that couldn´t be done and I did it.

Answer
Dear Gordon,

This might be what you are looking for:  http://www.scvsc.org/newsletter/JAN%2006%20MO.pdf

Capturing a Snapping Schned

by R. Myers

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done
But I with a chuckle replied,
That maybe it couldn’t but I’d be the one
To find where schned might hide.
I looked carefully beneath my bed
And I checked behind my chair,
but schneds were somewhere else instead,
they certainly weren’t there.
No schned was in the kitchen sink,
Not one was in my yard.
Capturing a sched, I think,
Will be very very hard.
Around my house there are no schneds,
I’ve looked high and low,
Around my house not one schned treads,
But there’s one thing that I know:
I could be a super hunter,
No schned would have me beat,
I would be a super hunter,
If Mom would let me to cross the street!