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Hilda Conkling

White owl is not gloomy;
Black bat is not sad.
It is only that each has forgotten
Something he used to remember:
Black bat goes searching . . . searching . . .
White owl says over and over
Who?  What?  Where?

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From Poems By a Little Girl

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