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. + 