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The Babbling Brook

5/10/2015

 
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

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By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

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Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

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I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

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With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

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I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

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And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,

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I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

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And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

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I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

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I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

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I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

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And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

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This is one of my favourite poems, written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Gordon xxx

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