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THE WOOD-LARK'S INVOCATION, 



Alauda 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 ;— 

 Icpseans 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.( 2 ) 



( 2 ) Order, Passeres, (Linn.) Lark, the Wood, the Tit, 

 the Rock, the Meadow, &c. 



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

 than fifty species distinguished by a sharp, pointed, slender, bill, 

 nostrils covered partly with feathers and bristles: tongue cloven 

 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. 



