MY child, the Duck-billed Platypus <br />A sad example sets for us: <br />From him we learn how Indecision <br />Of character provokes Derision. <br />This vacillating Thing, you see, <br />Could not decide which he would be, <br />Fish, Flesh, or Fowl, and chose all three. <br />The scientists were sorely vexed <br />To classify him; so perplexed <br />Their brains, that they, with Rage at bay, <br />Called him a horrid name one day,-- <br />A name that baffles, frights and shocks us, <br />Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus.<br /><br />Oliver Herford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-platypus-2/
