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TO AN ORIOLE by EDGAR FAWCETT

First Line: HOW FALLS IT, ORIOLE, THOU HAST COME TO FLY
Last Line: DESIRE UNSPEAKABLY TO BE A BIRD?
Subject(s): ORIOLES;
How falls it, oriole, thou hast come to fly
In tropic splendor through our Northern sky?

At some glad moment was it nature's choice
To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Or did some orange tulip, flaked with black,
In some forgotten garden, ages back,

Yearning toward Heaven until its wish was heard,
Desire unspeakably to be a bird?



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