<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The New Duckling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I want to be new,' said the duckling.<br>'O, ho!' said the wise old owl,<br>While the guinea-hen cluttered off chuckling<br>To tell all the rest of the fowl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I should like a more elegant figure,'<br>That child of a duck went on.<br>'I should like to grow bigger and bigger,<br>Until I could swallow a swan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I _won't_ be the bond slave of habit,<br>I _won't_ have these webs on my toes.<br>I want to run round like a rabbit,<br>A rabbit as red as a rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I _don't_ want to waddle like mother,<br>Or quack like my silly old dad.<br>I want to be utterly other,<br>And _frightfully_ modern and mad.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Do you know,' said the turkey, 'you're quacking!<br>There's a fox creeping up thro' the rye;<br>And, if you're not utterly lacking,<br>You'll make for that duck-pond. Good-bye!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I won't,' said the duckling. 'I'll lift him<br>A beautiful song, like a sheep;<br>And when I have--as it were--biffed him,<br>I'll give him my feathers to keep.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the curious end of this fable,<br>So far as the rest ascertained,<br>Though they searched from the barn to the stable,<br>Was that _only his feathers remained_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he _wasn't_ the bond slave of habit,<br>And he _didn't_ have webs on his toes;<br>And _perhaps_ he runs round like a rabbit,<br>A rabbit as red as a rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341852" data-title="The New Duckling de Alfred Noyes" data-description="'I want to be new,' said the duckling. 'O, ho!' said the wise old owl, While the guinea-hen cluttered off chuckling To tell all the rest of the fowl. 'I should like a more elegant figure,' That child of a duck went on. 'I should like to grow bigg..."></div> </div> </div>

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