Random Doggerel
Misnamed, 20: Tiger Lily
We know that Tiger Lily was
A character in Peter Pan,
But it’s a puzzler, too, because,
It is a flower, named by man.
Are things more contradictory
Than flowers and that fearsome cat?
The one is lovely, we can see;
The other eats you, nothing flat!
Oh, contradictions flow through time—
And some are puzzling—some a hoot—
Some tigers kill you for a dime—
Some flowers bound to stalk and root.
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