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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

To an Oriole

By Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904)

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?