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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.