The Lark Ascending - (excerpt)

Taken from a poem by George Meredith (1828–1909).

HE rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,

For singing till his heaven fills,
’T is love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which overflows
To lift us with him as he goes:

Till lost on his aërial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings.