The Owl and The Bobolink
A Bobolink trilled a roundelay.
"Halloo!" cried an owl. "That's fine!
I'd like to learn your song--if I may;
It is worth a dozen of mine!
"Folks say that my singing makes them blue;
But I practice the livelong night,
And I can't get a note beyond 'Tu-whoo,'
Though I try with all my might."
"Ha! ha!" laughed the bobolink. "Bob-o-bo-lee!
Men call me a frivolous bird;
But you are pictured from sea to sea
As wondrously wise, I've heard."
Then the bobolink laughed and laughed again,
Till his feathers shook with mirth.
"Such curious, comical creatures are men!
They're the funniest things on earth!
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