...lose its prettiest murmur. The brook thinks it sings. Just hear what it says : — 16. " ' I cliatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles ; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles :' — Tennyson. but the Pebbles make half the music, at least ; and the brook would be a dull singer...

...coot and hern,2 I make a sudden sally,3 And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker4 down a valley. 4. " I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays,5 I babble on the pebbles. 6. " I chatter, chatter as I flow To join the brimming river ; For...

...the ridges, By twenty thorps, 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,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my bank I fret By many a field and fallow, . . And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow....

...the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town. And half a hundred bridges. S Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. f With many a curve my bank I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed...

...Till last by Philip's farm I flow, Tii join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go. But 1 go on forever. I chatter over stony ways. In little...bubble Into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. SONG OF THE BROOK With many a curve my banks I fret. By many a Held and fallow. And many a fairy forelnnd...

...brook at its beginning, if the teacher can speak these words with the values that belong to them : " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles." They will quickly notice the more measured pace made by the long vowels and voiced consonants in such...

...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 and trebles,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my bunks T fret, By many a field and fullow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow....

...men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. Only one more verse, only one more river to cross. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. Sharps an' threbles—what do they mean? I know that to be sharp means to have an edge on anything...

...field and fallow , And many a fairy foreland set With willow -weed and mallow. I chatter , chatter , as I flow To join the brimming river , For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever . I wind about , and in and out , With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here...

...rather obvious example: in Tennyson's poem The Brook the brook's reply is a study in such virtuosity: I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles....bubble into eddying bays. I babble on the pebbles . . . When Virgil came to describe a farmer making a runnel (i. 108) he took his cue from a very expressive...