Professor Noctutus

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