Sunlight gladdened the garden and the orchard where blackbirds were pecking the cherries; a skylark rose from the meadow opposite the cottage, singing rapturously of love and youth-so that presently, the while she worked, Flamby began to sing, too.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
But she heard the chirrup of the sparrows, the call of thrush and blackbird, and far away the hymn of praise of the skylark.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Now then, at last, at last I am in a position which justifies the utterance of the hope which has for eighteen years been my solace, my support; been the sunbeam that ever shone through the gloom when my fate was at the darkest; been the melody that buoyed me aloft as in the song of the skylark, when in the voices of men I heard but the laugh of scorn.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton