The Skylark 223 



snow falls they become very fat, when thousands are 

 killed for the market. The back of the bird is brown, 

 blackisli-btown, and gray, the lower parts dingy white. 

 It is about seven inches long, the tail being three inches. 



TO A LARK. 



To be a lark, aloft and free, 



Fit emblem of ecstatic glee ; 



On joyous wing to cleave the sky 

 (Which means, in point of fact, to fly) ; 



To sing from dawn till after tea, 



Without a change of tune or key, 



Ah, yes ! that really is to be ! 

 I think so now, and often sigh 

 To be a lark. 



Time was when on some grassy lea 

 (You'd be much safer up a tree), 

 Your humble dwelling I would spy, 

 And take your eggs out on the sly, 

 For as a boy that seemed to me 

 To be a lark. 



Hanzard Watt. 



