Or power to climb, she made so low a choice;

Singing she mounts; her airy wings are stretched

Towards heaven, as if from heaven her voice she fetched.

Waller.


Lark's Song. (Wessex.)

"Twighee, twighee! There's not a shoemaker in all the world can make a shoe for me."

"Why so? Why so?" "Because my heel's as long as my toe."