How falls it, oriole, thou hast come to fly At some glad moment was it nature's choice Or did some orange tulip, flaked with black, Yearning toward Heaven until its wish was heard, Desire unspeakably to be a bird? EDGAR FAWCETT. - What bird so sings, yet so does wail? JOHN LYLY ⚫ Bartlett says, "It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the Mignonette." |