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Last Line: Oh, who could excel this oracular owl?
Subject(s): Owls


The oracular owl
Is a very wise fowl.
He sits on a limb
By night and by day.
And an eager assembly waits on him
To listen to what the wise bird may say.
I heard him discourse in the following way :
"The sun soon will set in the west."
Twill be fair if the sky is not cloudy."
"If a hundred are good only one can be best."
"No gentleman 's ever a rowdy."
"Ah I ah !" cry the birds. "What a marvellous fowl !
Oh, who could excel this oracular owl?"





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