240 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. Preserving reclamation of kindly nature ; tender con- 
solations of the love of God! 
