The lark in the clear air

Dear thoughts are in my mind, and my soul soars enchanted
As I hear the sweet lark sing in the clear air of the day
For a tender beaming smile to my hope has been granted,
And tomorrow she shall hear all my fond heart would say.

I shall tell her all my love, all my soul's adoration,
And I think she will [hear]1 and will not say me nay.
It is this that gives my soul all its joyous elation,
As I hear the sweet lark sing in the clear air of the day.

by Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)

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by Margaret Duncan (1911-1987) , "The lark in the clear air", published 1960, under the pseudonym Phyllis Tate, melody after a traditional Irish air
by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921-1976) , "The lark in the clear air" [duet with piano], from Three duets, no. 1.

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