Can you name the missing lyrics from I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General?

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ClueMissing Words# of Words
I am the very model of a 2
I've information vegetable,3
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights1
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order1
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters1
I understand equations, both the simple and1
About binomial theorum I'm teeming with a3
With many cheerful facts about the 4
I'm very good at integral and differential1
I know the scientific names of beings1
In short, in matters vegetable, 3
I am the very model of a2
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and2
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for1
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of 1
In conics I can floor peculiarities1
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerald Dows and1
I know the croaking chorus from the 3
ClueMissing Words# of Words
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's2
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense1
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic1
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's1
In short, in matters vegetable,3
I am the very model of a 2
In fact, when I know what is meant by 'mamelon' and1
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a1
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more 2
And when I know precisely what is meant by 1
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern1
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a1
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental1
You'll say a better Major-General has never3
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and 1
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the1
But still in matters vegetable,3
I am the very model of a 2
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