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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

The Tern. The Turnip.

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The Tern. The Turnip.
The Tern. The Turnip.

To tell the Turnip from the Tern, A thing which everyone should learn, Observe the Tern up in the air, See how he turns,—and now compare Him with this inert vegetable, Who thus to turn is quite unable, For he is rooted to the spot,

While as we see the Tern is not: He is not always doomed to be Thus bound to earth e-tern-ally, For "Cooked to a turn" may be inferred, To change the Turnip to the Bird.

(tern looking at turnips in a pot)
(tern looking at turnips in a pot)

Observe the Turnip in the pot. The Tern is glad that he is not!

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