How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts/The Pen-guin; The Sword-fish

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4358859How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts — The Pen-guin; The Sword-fish1917Robert Williams Wood
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The Pen-guin. The Sword-fish.

We have for many years been bored
By that old saw about the sword
And pen, and now we all rejoice,
To see how Nature made her choice:
She made, regardless of offendin',
The Sword-fish mightier than the Penguin.

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