. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . W / ^ 4 f^ Uro^ J,/ ^A</^/t^,^/uA^Rvnl>tut^ PASSERES. ( 250 ) A LAUD IBM. THE SKYLARK. LAVEROCK, FIELD LARK, COMMON LARK. Alauda arvensis. Hark ! hark ! the Lark at heavens gate sings, And Phcebus gins arise,His steeds to water at those springs On chaliccdflowers that lies. Shakespeare, Cytnbeline, ii. 3. The Latcerock maid melody 7cp hie in the skyis. Sir David Lindsay of the Mount. The joyous song of this char
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . W / ^ 4 f^ Uro^ J,/ ^A</^/t^,^/uA^Rvnl>tut^ PASSERES. ( 250 ) A LAUD IBM. THE SKYLARK. LAVEROCK, FIELD LARK, COMMON LARK. Alauda arvensis. Hark ! hark ! the Lark at heavens gate sings, And Phcebus gins arise,His steeds to water at those springs On chaliccdflowers that lies. Shakespeare, Cytnbeline, ii. 3. The Latcerock maid melody 7cp hie in the skyis. Sir David Lindsay of the Mount. The joyous song of this charming bird is heard in theMerse from early spring until summer is well advanced,and during that period, from the grey dawn of the morninguntil the shades of the evening, he pours his gladsomemusic from the sky. Up in the morning while the dew Is splashing in crystals oer him;The ploughman hies to the upland rise, But the lark is there before him ;He sings when the team is linked to the share, He sings when the mist is going,He sings when the noontide south is fair, He sings when the west isglowing. Cook. The Skylark generally rises from the ground on fluttering
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