"Was it a warbler you met?
Does it fly? Get wet?
A brand new breed of bird?
We stand in need of word."
"Aye, a brand new breed of bird,
The kind of which's unheard.
To describe her we need
Words of phrasal breed.
Finefangled is she, and in new fettle,
She builds her dint with loggerheads and lays eggs in a kettle.
Her dudgeon's short and shrift is high,
A riddance reddish in her cry:
A brand new breed of bird,
And that's just the first third.
Her down -- at least from what I saw --
Was spick and beck, and kith and haw,
Kit and whit, and not a caboodle.
All in all, a jetsam doodle
Was the brand new breed of bird
That I had encountered.
She bandies a shebang raringly,
Drinks neap and petard sparingly;
She wears her bill in kilter,
Up skelter and fro helter.
A brand new breed of bird,
A true crossword absurd."
