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" I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 134
1855
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Accepted Addresses; Or, Proemium Poetarum: To which are Added, Macbeth ...

1813 - 410 pages
...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 for ever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 27-28

1878 - 396 pages
...little sharps and trebles, , I 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 on for ever. " I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 25-26

1876 - 396 pages
...watching such a stream, he heard it singing, and this was its song : I come from 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 ; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 5, Part 1

1855 - 724 pages
...which we here insert, placing the detached lines together : — 1 come from Imimts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern....Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may coma and men may go,J But 1 go on for evw. i I chatter over stony ways, In little shnrps and...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...rhyme, " Whence come you? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. ' Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out,...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volume 17

1855 - 606 pages
...extremely original and striking, as well as musically perfect : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern,...a hundred bridges. " Till last by Philip's farm I How, To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on for ever. " I chatter...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 19-20

1855 - 802 pages
...when dealing with common things. We quote & stanza or two : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern,...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. , " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 6

1855 - 684 pages
...come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And spnrkle out among the fern, To oicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or...bridges. " Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brunming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. " I chatter over stony ways....
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1855 - 776 pages
...collect, so as to present it altogether : — " I come from haunt? of coot and hem, I make a sadden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down...By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridgea. " Till last by Philip's farm I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come and men...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern , I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...
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