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The laverock sings a bonny lay above the Scottish heather,
It sprinkles down from far away like light and love together;
He drops the golden notes to greet his brooding mate, his dearie,—

I only know one song more sweet,—the wood-notes of the veery.

Henry van Dyke.

From “The Builders and Other Poems”