"The Dodo" by Hilaire Belloc

Oxford Museum in the background

    he Dodo used to walk around,
    And take the sun and air.
    The sun yet warms his native ground—
    The Dodo is not there!

    The voice which used to squawk and squeak
    Is now forever dumb—
    Yet may you see his bones and beak
    All in the Mu-se-um.

     From "The Bad Child´s Book Of Beasts", 1896