corn-craik

Whaur the corn-craik craiks i 'the lang-heidit rye,

The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2

"Silence, silence, till I complate my rural ideas -- in some gentleman's rookery at all events; the thrush here, the blackbird there, the corn-craik chanting its varied note in another place, and so on.

Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three