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THE WOOD-LARK'S INVOCATION. 



Alaudu, arborea. (Linn.) 

 Goddess of the realm of Song ! 

 Round whose throne the Warblers throng. 

 From thy bright, cerulean sphere 

 Deign our humble notes to hear ! 



Love demands our earliest lay ; — 

 Love, the monarch of our may ; — 

 lo paeans let us sing 

 While we welcome laughing spring. 



May, with feet bedropp'd with dew. 

 On yon hill-top is in view ; — 

 May, whose arch look, winning wiles. 

 Youth on tip-toe oft beguiles. 



Goddess of the soul of Song ! 

 Thou to whom delights belong, 

 Deign to prompt the Warblers' Lay ; 

 Deign to deck the coming day.(^) 



(*) Order, Passeres, (Linn,) Lark, the VV oon, the Tn, 



the Rock, the Meadow, &c. 

 The Genus Alauda, {Linn.) or Lark, comprehends more 

 than fifty species distinguished by a sharp, pointed, vslender, hill, 

 nostrils covered partly with feathers and bristles: tongue cIovch 

 at the end : toes divided to their origin : claw of the back toe 

 very long, a little crooked : their motion running not hopping. 

 The following are the chief: 



The Arvensis, or Sky-lark, for an account of which see the 

 Sky-lark's Song. 



