Editing Lark (section)

===Symbolism===
The lark in mythology and literature stands for daybreak, as in [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s "[[The Knight's Tale]]", "the bisy larke, messager of day",<ref>{{cite book | last=Benson | first=Larry D. | year=2008 | title=The Riverside Chaucer | edition=3rd | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=978-0-19-282109-6 | page=45, line 1491 }}</ref> and [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s [[Sonnet 29]], "the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" (11–12). The lark is also (often simultaneously) associated with "lovers and lovers' observance" (as in [[Bernart de Ventadorn]]'s [[Can vei la lauzeta mover]]) and with "church services".<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Bawcutt | first=Priscilla | date=1972 | title=The lark in Chaucer and some later poets | journal=Yearbook of English Studies | jstor=3506502 | volume=2 | pages=5–12 | doi=10.2307/3506502 }}</ref> These meanings of daybreak and religious reference can be combined, as in [[William Blake|Blake]]'s ''[[Visions of the Daughters of Albion]]'', into a "spiritual daybreak"<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Baine | first1=Rodney M. | last2=Baine | first2=Mary R. | title=The scattered portions: William Blake's biological symbolism | year=1986 | isbn=978-0-935265-10-1 | page=70 | publisher=Author }}</ref> to signify "passage from Earth to Heaven and from Heaven to Earth".<ref>{{cite book | last=Stevens | first=Anthony | title=Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind  | year=2001 | publisher=Princeton University Press | isbn=978-0-691-08661-3 | page=363 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06We3O2BWVwC&pg=PA363 }}</ref> With Renaissance painters such as [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], the lark symbolizes [[Christ]], with reference to [[Gospel of John|John]] 16:16.<ref>{{cite book | last=Cadogan | first=Jeanne K. | year=2000 | title=Domenico Ghirlandaio: artist and artisan | publisher=Yale University Press | isbn=978-0-300-08720-8 | page=215 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NGNEd9rplzcC&pg=PA215 }}</ref>