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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409123" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Captive Owl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!<br>And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,<br>But for a most audacious wish to gauge<br>The hoarded wisdom of thy learned craw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Art thou, grave bird! so wondrous wise indeed?<br>Speak freely, without fear of jest or gibe -<br>What is thy moral and religious creed?<br>And what the metaphysics of thy tribe?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Poet, curious in birds and brutes,<br>I do not question thee in idle play;<br>What is thy station? What are thy pursuits?<br>Doubtless thou hast thy pleasures - what are THEY?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or is 't thy wont to muse and mouse at once,<br>Entice thy prey with airs of meditation,<br>And with the unvarying habits of a dunce,<br>To dine in solemn depths of contemplation?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There may be much - the world at least says so -<br>Behind that ponderous brow and thoughtful gaze;<br>Yet such a great philosopher should know,<br>It is by no means wise to think always.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, Bird, despite thy meditative air,<br>I hold thy stock of wit but paltry pelf -<br>Thou show'st that same grave aspect everywhere,<br>And wouldst look thoughtful, stuffed, upon a shelf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I grieve to be so plain, renowned Bird -<br>Thy fame 's a flam, and thou an empty fowl;<br>And what is more, upon a Poet's word<br>I'd say as much, wert thou Minerva's owl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So doff th' imposture of those heavy brows;<br>They do not serve to hide thy instincts base -<br>And if thou must be sometimes munching MOUSE,<br>Munch it, O Owl! with less profound a face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Timrod">Henry Timrod</a><div class=q>
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And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,
But for a most audacious wish to gauge
The hoarded wisdom of thy learned craw.

Art thou, grave bird! so wondrous wise indeed?
Speak freely, without fear of jest..."></div>
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