Do they still make hapless schoolchildren sing Victorian hymns every morning? Certainly did in my time, even up to my own teaching days which ended in the 80s. I used to take particular exception to that piece of transcendental idiocy by Mrs Alexander, "All Things Bright And Beautiful", about how God made all the nice things, "Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings", and then "gave us lips to tell How great is God Almighty Who has made all things well". So I came up with an additional verse of my own:-

The malarial mosquito,
The sucking vampire bat;
He must have made such things as well —
So what do you think of that!

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