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THE SONG. 



This hymn of light is a benefit bestowed on the world, and you 

 will meet with it in every country which the sun illuminates. There 

 are as many different species of larks as there are different countries : 

 wood-larks, field-larks, larks of the thickets, of the marshes, the larks 

 of the Crau de Provence, larks of the chalky soil of Champagne, larks 

 of the northern lands in both hemispheres; you will find them, more- 

 over, in the salt steppes, in the plains of Tartary withered by the 

 north wind. Presei-ving reclamation of kindly nature ; tender con- 

 solations of the love of God ! 



