Nobody knows the world but me. <br />The rest go to bed; I sit up and see. <br />I'm a better observer than any of you all, <br />For I never look out till the twilight fall, <br />And never then without green glasses, <br />And that is how my wisdom passes. <br /> <br />I never think, for that is not fit: <br /> <br />I observe. <br />I have seen the white moon sit <br />On her nest, the sea, like a fluffy owl, <br />Hatching the boats and the long-legged fowl! <br />When the oysters gape-you may make a note- <br />She drops a pearl into every throat. <br /> <br />I can see the wind: can you do that? <br />I see the dreams he has in his hat, <br />I see him shaking them out as he goes, <br />I see them rush in at man's snoring nose. <br />Ten thousand things you could not think, <br />I can write down plain with pen and ink! <br /> <br />You know that I know; therefore pull off your hat, <br />Whether round and tall, or square and flat: <br />You cannot do better than trust in me; <br />You may shut your eyes in fact-I\ see! <br />Lifelong I will lead you, and then, like the owl, <br />I will bury you nicely with my spade and showl.<br /><br />George MacDonald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/professor-noctutus/
