As the nightingale is called the “bird of eve,” so has the
lark been named the “bird of dawn.” Shakespeare has made frequent allusion to the early rising of the lark:—
“I do hear the morning lark.”
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iv. Sc. 1.
“It was the lark, the herald of the morn.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 5.
“The busy day,
Wak’d by the lark, hath rous’d the ribald crows.”
Troilus and Cressida, Act iv. Sc. 2.
“Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,