THE BROOK
I COME from haunts of coot [1] and hern [2] ,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker [3] down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps [4] , a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
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.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps [5] and trebles [6] ,
I bubble into eddying [7] bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
With many a curve my banks I fret,
By many a field and fallow [8] ,
And many a fairy foreland [9] set
With willow-weed [10] and mallow [11] .
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.
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 [12] .
And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel.
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.
I FLOW TO JOIN THE BRIMMING RIVER.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses [13] .
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.
—ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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[1 ] coot: A black wading bird.
[2 ] hern: Heron; a long-legged wading bird.
[3 ] bicker: Quarrel, carry on a brief battle.
[4 ] thorp: A group of houses, a village.
[5 ] sharp: A musical sign to raise a note; shrill sound.
[6 ] treble: Very high or shrill sound.
[7 ] eddying: Whirling, moving round and round.
[8 ] fallow: Ground not being tilled.
[9 ] foreland: Headland, cape.
[10 ] willow-weed: A tall, downy weed with purple flowers.
[11 ] mallow: A plant with downy leaves.
[12 ] grayling: A fish of the salmon tribe.
[13 ] cress: A water plant used in salads.
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