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?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MIDSUMMER BIRDS by ROBERT FROST THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES by AMY LOWELL A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC by MARIANNE MOORE THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER |