POETRY.

LARKS.

r- Larks, per doz., ls. 6d."—See Stores price-lid.] THROUGH all the ages as they run Spirits attuned have heard

The music of the risen sun From thee, thou rapturous bird!

One names thee with a lover's sigh—

The Herald of the morn : And one—the Pilgrim of the sky.

To one, like maid high-bern Thy ecstasy, from palace tower When sweet as love she sings.

One lays the prayer from Eden's bower Upon thy heavenward wings.

To one, in flight of mounting lark The sacred poets rise.

One catches 'tween the dawn and dark Wild warbled melodies, And flittering wings ere sets the moon,

Himself in fancy's sight—

The earliest bird by bonnie Doon. That carolled to the light.

One walks with Una in the dew, And mountain lark is merry.

One hears thee with the jocund crew Riding to Canterbury.

Bird of the wilderness—remote One cries from Ettrick's vale. One, in blest vision, sets thy note For Lancelot and the Grail.

One lilts with Pippa as she passes—

The lark is on the wing.

Wise lark ! whose heart nests in the grasses, Though blithe to soar and sing.

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Twelve skylarks in twelve poets sought—

Men without common-sense ! In English mart the lot is bought To-day for eighteenpence.

ELEANOR ALEXANDER.