How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers
    Requires great per-spi-ca-city.

    Here in the pod we see the Pea,

    While perched close by is the Pewee;

    The Pea he hears the Pewee peep,

    While Pewee sees the wee Pea weep,

    There'll be but little time to see,

    How Pewee differs from the Pea.

    The Panicle and Pelican

    Have often been confused;

    The letters which spell Pelican

    In Panicle are used.

    You never need confound the two,

    There are many ways of telling:

    The simplest thing that one can do,

    Is to observe the spelling.

    The Lichens lie on rocks and bark,

    They look somewhat like Hens:

    Hens

     lay

    , they


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