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The large white owl that with eye is blind,Is carried away in a gust of wind.
— Owls
The large white owl that with eye is blind,Is carried away in a gust of wind.
The Roman senate, when withinFrom doing town or country hurt.
In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!
St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.
The wailing owlScreams solitary to the mournful moon.
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, And frights the school-boy from his play.
Then nightly sings the staring owl,Tu-who, a merry note.
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,Which gives the stern'st good night.
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wondersAt our quaint spirits.
O you virtuous owle,The wise Minerva's only fowle.
When cats run home and light is come, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade,Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.
