This Christmas legend tells of how the raven gathered up all the birds to fly to worship the newborn Jesus. Most of the birds joined him on this pilgrimage and paid their King homage. The robin distinguished himself with his selfless gift of fanning the flames to keep the baby warm and to this day bears a beautiful red breast as his reward, but the skeptical owl, who refused to even make the trip, is doomed to this day to ask his constant question, Whoo Whoo?

The octogram, invented by Fan Story's Sally Yocom, is a two verse poem. The syllable count is 8/4/8/4/8/8/8/4 in each verse. The rhyme scheme is ABABCCBB ABABDDBB. The second line of verse one serves as a refrain at the end of both verses. When reading this aloud, I suggest drawing out the words in the four syllable lines.

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