How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts/The Blue Mountain Lory; The Blue Morning Glory

by Robert Williams Wood

The Insects, to avoid surprise
By Birds, sometimes themselves disguise
As leaves and twigs, and thus escape
The appetizing Insect's fate.
Observe how cleverly this Vine
Has forced its leaves and flowers to twine
Themselves into a Bird design.
And how it's artful turns and twists,
Hides it from zealous Botanists.