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Behold, I built a fowlhouse in my yard! / Two months agone the great work was begun, / And ev'ry eventide I labored hard, / What time my daily office grind was done. / 'Tis to my industry a monument, / The fowls, my wife and I are well content.
Indeed, I built a fowlhouse. Gods forbid - / Although I made it, floor and roof and wall - / That I should boast about this thing I did. / I mention it most modestly withal. / Just these two hands, this brain were all I had. / I built it on my own, and I am glad.