...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...

...haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go...

...Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. I clatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. I wind about, and in and out, AVith here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here...

...of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me ! " '' I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and (allow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. ' I chatter, chatter, as I flow...

...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...

...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...

...brim'ful slav'ish ex am'ple LESSON 12. Tennyson, the English poet, makes a brook sing in this way: " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. " I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots, That...

...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...

...twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges ; 3. Till last by Philip's farm I flow 4. I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles ; 5. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With...

...tree-shadowed, fern-fringed banks, might perfectly describe itself in Tennyson's musical lines — " I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles;...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. " I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And...