[Verse] Scissor-beak lower mandible flat elastic Its an ivory paper-cutter Lower mandible immersed some depth in the water It flies rapidly up and down the stream So that there are three sorts of birds which use their wings For more purposes than flying The steamer as paddles the penguin as fins And the ostrich spreads its plumes like sails to the breeze
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