Scares not, nor curbs me.

Sea-birds are silly things,

Squat bodies, stunted wings.

Where is the bard who sings

Penguin or puffin,

Grebe, guillemot, or gull?

Oh, the winged noodles, null,

In timid flocks and dull,

Squattin' and stuffin'!

I, like the albatross,