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THE SKYLARK. 
Alarida Arvensis, 
Thus winged larks forsake their native nest. 
The merry minstrels of the morn j 
New to heaven they mount away. 
And meet again no more. 
This sweet songster, so well known, and so justly 
admired for its clear melodious note, has been al- 
most as much celebrated by poets as the nightingale. 
What can be more delightful, or what can raise the 
mind to a juster sense of the power of our all-wise 
Creator, than to listen to this ethereal minstrel — this 
" pilgrim of the sky," first warbling its clear note 
upon the wing, raising its melodious voice as it 
soars, until it seems lost in the heights above us, 
the note continuing, though the little performer is 
invisible to our view, when suddenly we see it 
