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Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/The Oriole's Secret

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Poems: Second Series (1891)
by Emily Dickinson
The Oriole's Secret
4407020Poems: Second Series — The Oriole's Secret1891Emily Dickinson

XII.

THE ORIOLE’S SECRET.


TO hear an oriole sing
May be a common thing,
Or only a divine.

It is not of the bird
Who sings the same, unheard,
As unto crowd.

The fashion of the ear
Attireth that it hear
In dun or fair.

So whether it be rune,
Or whether it be none,
Is of within;

The "tune is in the tree,"
The sceptic showeth me;
"No, sir! In thee!"