| Bands of hope - 1868 - 224 pages
...to-night Lesa work for better wage ; Then coma and join with us, boys, These evilii to assuage. THE BEOOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or sb'p between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. I chatter over... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...scorn to own Í) A tutelar fond voice, a saviour tone of love. CHARLES TENNYSON. SONG OF THE BROOK. er gave, Its t To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps,... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...through the river-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. ALFEED TENNYSON, POET LAUKEATE. 1809— The Brook. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 186 pages
...a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. THE BROOK. COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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. n. I chatter... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...scorn to own ?) A tutelar foud voice, a saviour tone of love. CHARLES .TENNYSON. SONG OF THE BROOK. n. Hope " springscxulting on triumphant wing," That...In such society, yet still more dear ; While circ 1 flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. I chatter... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - Animals - 1872 - 296 pages
...Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. — John Logan. OUT OF DOORS. THE BROOK I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. 102 CHILD LIFE. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come, and... | |
| Alfonzo Gardiner - 1872 - 104 pages
...yards ? Lesson 79.— Thursday.— Grammar. Learn and Write. Ex. 18. Parse as fully as you can. — I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. Ex. 19. Write the plurals of goose, body, wolf, sheaf, valley, brush, navy, hoof, moss. Lesson 80.—... | |
| John Bascom - History - 1872 - 276 pages
...ledges drip with a silent horror of blood, And echo there, whatever is asked her, answers * Death.' " "I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley." "We parted: sweetly gleamed the stars, And sweet the vapor-braided blue, Low breezes fanned the belfry... | |
| Florence Wilford - 1872 - 132 pages
..." The Brook," that one of the young ladies at the " seminary " was learning ; and the verses — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1872 - 274 pages
...youth Cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasaunce, Age is full of care."—Shakespeare. 19. " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley."—Tennyson. 20. " Is this a fast, to keep Thy larder lean And clean From fat of meals and... | |
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