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Ornithology poem    by Eleanor Farjeon What’s ornithology? Pray can you tell? It’s hard to pronounce and it’s harder to spell— Yet that’s what you’re learning whenever you care To study the Birds of the Earth, Sea, and Air. There’s a long word To stand for a Bird! For a Lark or a Sparrow its length is absurd! Eagles and Ostriches need no apology If you should label them as ornithology! But how can it fit The tiny Tom-Tit? The Finch. Wants a word that’s no more than an inch! Yet all the Birds of the East and the West, Whatever they be, and wherever they nest— The Vulture—the Hen— The Flamingo—the Wren— The Dove—the Canary— The queer Cassowary The Thrush on the bough, and the Duck in the pool— They are all ornithology when you’re in School!     Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965), born in London, was an author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. She won many literary awards and the prestigious Eleaner Farjeon Award for children's literatur...