...and the voice of a child, who sat beneath a tree on the lawn, intent on its lesson, repeated, — " Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound P Or while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye, Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest...

...unerring precision into the nest. Wordsworth has not forgotten the moral which its life teaches. " Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest, upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest, which thou...

...Shakspeare calls the bird, a lyric, so full of praise and devotion, that it may be termed a Hymn : — Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ; Or while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest, which thou...

..."Wordsworth—one out of the crowd of sweet singers—has sung about him: — '"TO A SKYLARK. " 'Etherial minstrel! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound ? Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground 1 Thy nest, which thou...

...may be seen ; By the leaves you may know where the violet hath been. THE SKY-LARK. 59 THE SKV-LARK. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound ; Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest, upon the dewy ground 1 Thy nest which thou...

...heavenward influences, O Thou that gavest us flowers ! . MRS F. HEMANS, 1793-1835. TO THE SKYLARK. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound 1 Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest...

...Be Thou to love and praise alike impelled, Whatever boon is granted or withheld. XVIII TO A SKY-LARK ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost...

...Be Thou to love and praise alike impelled, Whatever boon is granted or withheld. XVIII TO A SKY-LARK ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou...will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost...

...lips would flow, Die world would listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. THE SKYLARK. JTHEREAL Minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the...ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will ; To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! that love-prompted strain 'Twixt...

...minstrel, pilgrim of the sky, J—-. Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound * Or, while thy wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest...Those quivering wings composed, that music still. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour...