...house, under a large oak tree and close to the pretty little murmuring brook of the " Barefoot Boy." " Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall." We lay on the grass and listened to its pleasant voice, and tried to imagine the poet, a rosy-cheeked,...

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...saw, Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; 7. For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Still, as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too ; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex...

...Humming birds and honeybees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ; 5. Laughed the brook for my delight, Through the day...sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond. 6. Oh, for festal dainties spread, Like my bowl of milk and bread — Pewter spoon and bowl of wood,...

...the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; 79/ --a In every needful tlie sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples...

..."Barefoot Boy," as we read his description of that little stream "which came noisily down the ravine." Laughed the brook for my delight, Through the day...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall. The story of youth's hardships and winter joys is told most charmingly in his idyl, entitled, " SnowBound....

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...times, at the beauty of their conceit. To illustrate : In Whittier's "Barefoot Boy," where he says, "Laughed the brook for my delight, Through the day,...the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall." Now, my thought with regard to the expression "from fall to fall," was that the brook talked to the...