Can vei la lauzeta mover (PC 70.43)[1] is a song written in the Occitan language by Bernart de Ventadorn, a 12th-century troubadour.
[2] It is one of the first poems "to dramatise the effect of someone actually speaking in the present", in part by its formulation as a first-person narrative.
Its lyrics are arranged in seven stanzas of eight lines, ending in a four-line coda.
The first two verses speak of a lark (the "lauzeta" of the title) flying with joy into the sun, forgetting itself, and falling, with the speaker wishing he could be so joyful, but unable because of his unrequited love for a woman.
[5] Some scholars have suggested that this song inspired a tercet in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Paradiso XX:73–75, which also describes the flight of a lark;[6][7] however, others have suggested that Dante might have come by this image indirectly through Bondie Dietaiuti,[8] or that this sight would have been common enough that no connection between the two poems can be ascribed.