Feather'd lyric, warbling high, <br />Sweetly gaining on the sky, <br />Op'ning with thy matin lay <br />(Nature's hymn) the eye of day, <br />Teach my soul, on early wing, <br />Thus to soar and thus to sing. <br />While the bloom of orient light <br />Gilds thee in thy tuneful flight, <br />May the Day-spring from on high, <br />Seen by faith's religious eye, <br />Cheer me with His vital ray, <br />Promise of eternal day.<br /><br />James Thomson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-morning-lark/
