Wood Robert Williams. How to tell the birds from the flowers and other woodcuts

26th ed. Dodd, Mead and Company. New York. 1917. 60 p.Стихи, основанные на игре слов, и такие же шутливые рисунки к ним.By other Nature books l'm sure ,
You've often been misled,
You've tried a wall-flower to secure.
And picked a hen instead:
you've wondered what the es-plants
And why the chestnut's burred,
And if the hop-vine hops away,
Its perfectly absurd.
I hence submit for your inspection,
This very new and choice collection,
Of flowers on Storks, and Phlox of birds.
With some explanatory words.
Not every one is always able
To recognize a vegetable,
For some are guided by tradition,
While others use their intuition,
And even I make no pretense
Of having more than common sense.
Indeed these strange homologies
Are in most flornithologies,
And I have freely drawn upon
The works of Gray and Audubon,
Avoiding though the frequent blunders
Of those who study Nature's wonders.