PELICAN

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1. By them there sat, the loving pelican,
   Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,
   With her own blood to life again doth bring.—MICHAEL DRAYTON, Noah's Flood
   

2. Like the kind, life-retiring pelican,
   Repast them with my blood.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

3. A wonderful bird is the pelican;
   His bill holds more than his bellican;
   He takes in his beak
   Enough food for a week,
   And I don't know how in the hellican.—Traditional