On Hearing A Musk Duck

'Tis the call of the musk duck unmelodious though clear That in the nearby river I obviously does hear In the deep, wide and still waters that stretch a mile or more To the white waves of saltwater where the Pacific breakers roar Of the shy birds of still waterways Nature's mysteries abound The wild call of the musk duck is not a pleasant sound But the male an interesting bird to look at how Nature created him With a dark fleshy pouch beneath his chin that he can inflate at a whim The strange ways of the musk ducks seem a mystery to me The male bird or the female out of water I've yet to see The female bird leaves the water to breed as much of them as I do know Of the secret lives of Nature's creatures my wonder only grow In the still river waters they dive for food every day And the wild call of the musk duck to their identity a give away.