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The Stork's Vocation.

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The stork who worms and frogs devours     That in our ponds reside,     Why should he dwell on high church-towers,     With which he's not allied?     Incessantly he chatters there,     And gives our ears no rest;     But neither old nor young can dare     To drive him from his nest.     I humbly ask it, how can he     Give of his title proof,     Save by his happy tendency     To soil the church's roof?

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