LYRICAL POET OF THE SKY. 



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in the lofty region of light. But just as the lark is lost — 

 he and his song together — both are again seen and heard 

 wavering down the sky, and in a little while he is walking, 

 contented, along the furrows of the brairded corn, or on 

 the clover lea, that has not felt the ploughshare for half 

 a century." 



The skylark makes its home near the dwellings of man, 

 because in the arable land and pastures it finds an abun- 



