The Doe; The Dodo

Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955) · How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts · 1917

The Doe and her phonetic double,
No longer are a source of trouble,
Because the Dodo, it appears,
Has been extinct for many years:
She was too haughty to embark,
With total strangers in Noah’s ark,
And we rejoice because her pride,
Our nature book has simplified.

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First published in How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts (1917). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]

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Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955). “The Doe; The Dodo.” First published in How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts (1917). Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/robert-williams-wood/the-doe-the-dodo/. Append #L14 to cite line 14, or #L4-L9 for lines 4–9.

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