She Dotes + 

She dotes on what the wild birds say + 

Or hint or mock at, night and day⁠— + 

Thrush, blackbird, all that sing in May, + 

And songless plover, + 

Hawk, heron, owl, and woodpecker. + 

They never say a word to her + 

About her lover. + 

She laughs at them for childishness, + 

She cries at them for carelessness + 

Who see her going loverless + 

Yet sing and chatter + 

Just as when he was not a ghost, + 

Nor ever ask her what she has lost + 

Or what is the matter. + 

Yet she has fancied blackbirds hide + 

A secret, and that thrushes chide + 

Because she thinks death can divide + 

Her from her lover; + 

And she has slept, trying to translate + 

The word the cuckoo cries to his mate + 

Over and over. + 