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The Little Owl

You clench your claws
As upon Wisdom’s shoulder,
Where once the Athenians perched you By that helmeted head.
Pansy-faced owl:
We too would see you as her Blunt-browed familiar.
Susanne Knowles from City Owl – Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Athena is one of the greatest divinities of ancient Greece. Her father was

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