Rachel - A Marvelous Bird

Growing up my grandfather regaled me with many witticisms, pithy poems and tall tales; one of my favorites was a limerick about that marvelous bird, the pelican.  After my grandpa's death in 2009 at age 96 I researched and found that it was written by Dixon Lanier Merritt, but for me it will always be my grandpa's poem.

Oh, you wanted the poem?  Here it is:

A marvelous bird is the pelican,

its beak can hold more than its belican,

it can hold in its beak enough for a week,

what a marvelous bird is the pelican.