<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357940" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Black Cormorant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By inlet and islet and wide river reaches,<br>By lake and lagoon I'm at home,<br>Yet oft' the far forests of blue-gum and beeches<br>About the broad ranges I roam,<br>'There's a strange, sombre bird with a hook in his beak.'<br>'Tis the little black cormorant raiding your creek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And woe to the fisher and woe to the fishes <br>A gourmand I freely confess<br>When I come a-searching for succulent dishes,<br>Arrayed in my funeral dress,<br>Then the fishermen rave, and in anger they speak:<br>'There's a little black cormorant coming up creek!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I'm quick and I'm cunning, as many a greyling,<br>A blackfish, a trout or a bream<br>Has known to his sorrow when down I go sailing<br>To hunt him beneath the dark stream.<br>To my cavernous maw then they all come alike,<br>And 'tis death should the little black cormorant strike.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I am an outlaw. I'm hunted and harried,<br>I'm banned from the havens of men.<br>And woe is to me if to long I have tarried <br>A shot o'er the waters - and then,<br>There is reason indeed for my funeral dress,<br>For, alas, here's a little black cormorant less.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357940" data-title="The Little Black Cormorant de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="By inlet and islet and wide river reaches, By lake and lagoon I'm at home, Yet oft' the far forests of blue-gum and beeches About the broad ranges I roam, 'There's a strange, sombre bird with a hook in his beak.' 'Tis the little black cormorant ra..."></div> </div> </div>

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