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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
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
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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