THE BROOK.
I come from haunts of coot and hern,I make sudden sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern,To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,Or slip between the ridges,By twenty thorps, a little town,And half a hundred bridges.
I chatter over stony ways,In little sharps and trebles,I bubble into eddying bays,I babble on the pebbles.
With many a curve my banks I fretBy many a field and fallow,And many a fairy foreland setWith...
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