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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"
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