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\nLord Alfred Tennyson<\/em><\/p>\n
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
\nI make a sudden sally,
\nAnd sparkle out among the fern,
\nTo bicker down a valley.<\/p>\n
By thirty hills I hurry down,
\nOr slip between the ridges,
\nBy twenty thorps, a little town,
\nAnd half a hundred bridges.<\/p>\n
Till last by Philip’s farm I flow
\nTo join the brimming river,
\nFor men may come and men may go,
\nBut I go on for ever.<\/p>\n
I chatter over stony ways,
\nIn little sharps and trebles,
\nI bubble into eddying bays,
\nI babble on the pebbles.<\/p>\n
With many a curve my banks I fret
\nBy many a field and fallow,
\nAnd many a fairy foreland set
\nWith willow-weed and mallow.<\/p>\n
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
\nTo join the brimming river,
\nFor men may come and men may go,
\nBut I go on for ever.<\/p>\n
I wind about, and in and out,
\nWith here a blossom sailing,
\nAnd here and there a lusty trout,
\nAnd here and there a grayling,<\/p>\n
And here and there a foamy flake
\nUpon me, as I travel
\nWith many a silvery waterbreak
\nAbove the golden gravel,<\/p>\n
And draw them all along, and flow
\nTo join the brimming river,
\nFor men may come and men may go,
\nBut I go on for ever.<\/p>\n
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
\nI slide by hazel covers;
\nI move the sweet forget-me-nots
\nThat grow for happy lovers.<\/p>\n
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
\nAmong my skimming swallows;
\nI make the netted sunbeam dance
\nAgainst my sandy shallows.<\/p>\n
I murmur under moon and stars
\nIn brambly wildernesses;
\nI linger by my shingly bars;
\nI loiter round my cresses;<\/p>\n
And out again I curve and flow
\nTo join the brimming river,
\nFor men may come and men may go,
\nBut I go on for ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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