<h2 id="c10">THE ORIOLE.</h2>
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<p class="t0">A flash of gold and black against the sky,</p>
<p class="t">A perch upon the orchard’s topmost bough,</p>
<p class="t0">A strain of such unmingled ecstasy,</p>
<p class="t">The lingering echoes thrill the silence now.</p>
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<p class="t0">A hanging nest so beautifully shaped,</p>
<p class="t">So softly lined, close woven, firm and strong,</p>
<p class="t0">A bright-eyed mate to brood above the eggs,</p>
<p class="t">And listen to that rhapsody of song.</p>
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<p class="t0">A deep serenity of blue above,</p>
<p class="t">A bubbling joy within beyond control.</p>
<p class="t0">Of hopes fulfilled, of Summertime and love—</p>
<p class="t">Once more the golden story, Oriole!</p>
<p class="lr">—Lulu Whedon Mitchell.</p>
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