Rooks, ravens, many rows;
Cuckoos, curlews, whoso knows,
Each one in his kind.
And here are doves, ducks, drakes,
Redshanks, running through the lakes—
And each fowl that language makes
In this ship men may find.”
At length, after the animals had all gone safely into the ark, Noah, to the huge delight of the crowd, turned again to his wife, and once more began to urge her to enter.
“Wife, come in, why standest thou there? (he entreated).
Thou art ever forward, that I dare swear;