A LARK'S TOMB.
(Copied by Gladys Knppely, Uotorua ; age 15.) 11l the walls of a liumblc cottage in a Devonshire village tliero was to be seen many years ago a. tine braes plate, on which the following lines were .engraved: — Within this wall there lies a lark, Whose age, I think, well worth remark, Take fifty-five from three, And there his age exact you see, And in remembrance of age These lines were writ beneath his cage. The peasant whose i>et this lark had been delighted in showing this poem to all visitors, and never forgot to tell them he wrote it by his own unaided efforts. The bird had come into his possession when it was fully grown, and must therefore have been quite nineteen years old at its death. -
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 67, 19 March 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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131A LARK'S TOMB. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 67, 19 March 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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