What Is a Buslus?

The best authorities are vague;
The learned Dr. Bock (of Prague)
Writes “Totally unlike a rat . . .”
I cannot argue much from that.

Pottiger says “Its Knobs are round:
See Beeswax”. I have also found
This doubtful note of Dr. Moon,
“Delightful in the afternoon.”

Count Posky writes (in joke, I hope)
“Coughs rather like an antelope.”
And what can Jupp of Cambridge mean
By saying “Kindness turns it green”?

Some say a Buslus is a bird
And some a science: I have heard
It talked of as a club, a pigeon,
A tool, a fish and a religion.

For many an age, for many an hour,
I've sat and wondered in this tower.
O stars, O seas, O all that is,
I wonder what a Buslus is!
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