But he was never known to fly,
Preferring a rambling, shambling walk,
And the walruses wondered why;
Yet there seems no reason that on this point
Their minds should have been so hazy,
For it’s clear to me as a thing can be
That the awkward auk was lazy.
“Though he might have skirted the rainbow’s rim
Or circled above the seas,
The only gait that appealed to him