'Mourn not for the Owl, nor his gloomy plight! 



The Owl hath, his share of good : 

 If a prisoner he be in the broad daylight, 

 He is lord in the dark greenwood ! 

 We know not alway 

 Who are kings by day, 

 But the king of the night is the bold brown Owl." 



Barry Cornwall. 



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