<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344021" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Man Platypus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far from the trouble and toil of town,<br>Where the reed beds sweep and shiver,<br>Look at a fragment of velvet brown,<br>Old Man Platypus drifting down,<br>Drifting along the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he plays and dives in the river bends<br>In a style that is most elusive;<br>With few relations and fewer friends,<br>For Old Man Platypus descends<br>From a family most exclusive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He shares his burrow beneath the bank<br>With his wife and his son and daughter<br>At the roots of the reeds and the grasses rank;<br>And the bubbles show where our hero sank<br>To its entrance under water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Safe in their burrow below the falls<br>They live in a world of wonder,<br>Where no one visits and no one calls,<br>They sleep like little brown billiard balls<br>With their beaks tucked neatly under.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he talks in a deep unfriendly growl<br>As he goes on his journey lonely;<br>For he's no relation to fish nor fowl,<br>Nor to bird nor beast, nor to horned owl;<br>In fact, he's the one and only!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</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=344021" data-title="Old Man Platypus de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="Far from the trouble and toil of town, Where the reed beds sweep and shiver, Look at a fragment of velvet brown, Old Man Platypus drifting down, Drifting along the river. And he plays and dives in the river bends In a style that is most elusive; ..."></div> </div> </div>

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