...proIn music unconfin'd. Up springs the lark , Shrill-voic'd and loud, the messenger of morn : Ere vet the shadows fly, he mounted sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunte Calls up the tuneful nations. Ev'ry copse Deep-tangled, tree irregular, and bush Bending with...

...indeed, the lover of nature, and particularly of ornithology, can scarcely read that poet too often : " Up springs the Lark, Shrill voic'd and loud the messenger...and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Every copse Deep-tangled, tree irregular, and bush Bending with dewy moisture, o'er the heads Of the...

...indeed, the lover of nature, and particularly of ornithology, can scarcely read that poet too often : " Up springs the Lark, Shrill voic'd and loud the messenger...and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Every copse Deep-tangled, tree irregular, and bush Bending with dewy moisture, o'er the heads Of the...

...elegantly describes it as the leader of the warbling choir : — Up springs the Lark, Shrill- voiced and loud, the messenger of morn: Ere yet the shadows...and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. The Lark mounts almost perpendicularly, and by successive springs, into the air; where it hovers at...

...gives us a very pkasing description of this little creature : — -Up springs the Lark, Shrill-voiced and loud, the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows...and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Burns also gives a beautiful description of the Lark, in his Address to the Daisy : Alas ! it's no...

...object that incited them. Watli. Up springs the lark Shrill voiced and loud, the messenger of mom ; v )+_ 3 9 翀 ~ u V 0>zt ( A w _ z boI \yU ;U? ' ] q Calk up the tuneful nations. Thornton's Seasons. A stag sprang from the pasture at his call, Aod taeeling...

...gratification of his ear. • Locke's Works, vol. ii. p. 15, el seq. 4 " Up springs the lark, Shrill voiced and loud, the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounting sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Every copse...

...Than all alive at once their joy o'erflows In music unconfinrd. Up springs the Lark, Shrill voiced and loud, the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows...and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Every copse Deep tangled, tree irregular, and bush Bending with dewy moisture o'er the heads Of the...

...eyes." Thomson also pays his melodious tribute to this sweet bird : " Up springs the lark Shrill-voiced and loud, the messenger of morn, Ere yet the shadows...and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations." 4 The verse in Gray's beautiful ballad of Black-eyed Susan deserves also to be noticed for the justness...

...the lark, Shrill, varied and loud — the messenger of morn, Ero yet the shadows fly, he mounting, sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Every copae Deep tangled — tree irregular, and bush Bonding with dewy moisture, o'er the heads Of...