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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393287" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ducks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(To E.M., Who drew them in Holzminden Prison) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From troubles of the world I turn to ducks,<br>Beautiful comical things<br>Sleeping or curled<br>Their heads beneath white wings<br>By water cool,<br>Or finding curious things<br>To eat in various mucks<br>Beneath the pool,<br>Tails uppermost, or waddling<br>Sailor-like on the shores<br>Of ponds, or paddling<br>- Left! Right! - with fanlike feet<br>Which are for steady oars<br>When they (white galleys) float<br>Each bird a boat<br>Rippling at will the sweet<br>Wide waterway ...<br>When night is fallen you creep<br>Upstairs, but drakes and dillies<br>Nest with pale water-stars.<br>Moonbeams and shadow bars,<br>And water-lilies:<br>Fearful too much to sleep<br>Since they've no locks<br>To click against the teeth<br>Of weasel and fox.<br>And warm beneath<br>Are eggs of cloudy green<br>Whence hungry rats and lean<br>Would stealthily suck<br>New life, but for the mien<br>The hold ferocious mien<br>Of the mother-duck. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, ducks are valiant things<br>On nests of twigs and straws,<br>And ducks are soothy things<br>And lovely on the lake<br>When that the sunlight draws<br>Thereon their pictures dim<br>In colours cool.<br>And when beneath the pool<br>They dabble, and when they swim<br>And make their rippling rings,<br>0 ducks are beautiful things!<br>But ducks are comical things:-<br>As comical as you.<br>Quack!<br>They waddle round, they do.<br>They eat all sorts of things,<br>And then they quack.<br>By barn and stable and stack<br>They wander at their will,<br>But if you go too near<br>They look at you through black<br>Small topaz-tinted eyes<br>And wish you ill.<br>Triangular and clear<br>They leave their curious track<br>In mud at the water's edge,<br>And there amid the sedge<br>And slime they gobble and peer<br>Saying 'Quack! quack!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God had finished the stars and whirl of coloured suns<br>He turned His mind from big things to fashion little ones;<br>Beautiful tiny things (like daisies) He made, and then<br>He made the comical ones in case the minds of men<br>Should stiffen and become<br>Dull, humourless and glum,<br>And so forgetful of their Maker be<br>As to take even themselves - quite seriously.<br>Caterpillars and cats are lively and excellent puns:<br>All God's jokes are good - even the practical ones!<br>And as for the duck, 1 think God must have smiled a bit<br>Seeing those bright eyes blink on the day He fashioned it.<br>And he's probably laughing still at the sound that came out of its bill!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frederick+William+Harvey">Frederick William Harvey</a><div class=q>
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From troubles of the world I turn to ducks,
Beautiful comical things
Sleeping or curled
Their heads beneath white wings
By water cool,
Or finding curious things
To eat in various mucks
Beneath th..."></div>
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