1 Twenty Hill Hollow 
creek; and the sparrow hawk and gray eagle 1 
come to hunt. The lark, who does nearly all 
the singing for the Hollow, is not identical 
in species with the meadowlark of the East, 
though closely resembling it ; richer flowers and 
skies have inspired him with a better song than 
was ever known to the Atlantic lark. 
I have noted three distinct lark-songs here. 
The words of the first, which I committed to 
memory at one of their special meetings, spelled 
as sung, are, “Wee-ro spee-ro wee-o weer-ly 
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wee-it.” On the 20th of January, 1869, they 
sang “Queed-lix boodle,” repeating it with 
great regularity, for hours together, to music 
sweet as the sky that gave it. On the 22d of 
the same month, they sang “Chee chool chee- 
dildy choodildy.” An inspiration is this song of 
the blessed lark, and universally absorbable by 
human souls. It seems to be the only bird-song 
of these hills that has been created with any 
direct reference to us. Music is one of the at- 
1 Mr. Muir doubtless meant the golden eagle C Aquila 
chrysaetos). 
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