How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers And Other Wood-cuts

To tell the Turnip from the Tern,

A thing which everyone should learn,

Observe the Tern up in the air,

See how he turns, and now compare

Him with this in∙ert veg∙et∙able,

Who thus to turn is quite unable,

For he is rooted to the spot,

While as we see, the Tern is not:

He is not always doomed to be

Thus bound to earth e-tern-ally

For "cooked to a tern" may be inferred,

To change the Turnip to a bird.

Observe the Turnip in the Pot.

The Tern is glad that he is not!