The poem
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be inferred.
Of impudent Habiliment Attired to defy, Impertinence subordinate At times to Majesty.
Of Sentiments seditious Amenable to Law -- As Heresies of Transport Or Puck's Apostacy.
Extrinsic to Attention Too intimate with Joy -- He compliments existence Until allured away
By Seasons or his Children -- Adult and urgent grown -- Or unforeseen aggrandizement Or, happily, Renown --
By Contrast certifying The Bird of Birds is gone -- How nullified the Meadow -- Her Sorcerer withdrawn!
