 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.  The Band of Hope Treasury - Page 351868Full view - About this book
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...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. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But... | |
 | George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...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 over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles...bays— I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret, By many a field and fallow ; And many a fairy headland, set With willow, weed, and mallow.... | |
 | Matilda Horsburgh - 1865 - 228 pages
...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.' The song described so exactly the little brook before them, that some of the youngsters thought Claude... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pages
...bicker* down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorps, fa little town, And half a hundred bridges. I chatter...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... | |
 | Spence Spencer - 1866 - 170 pages
...stream grows more and more brook-like, and murmuring over its rocky bed seems gleefully singing : " 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 here... | |
 | 668 pages
...and the words were the fitting accompaniment to the delicious gurgling of the water : — " I clatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays ; I babble on the pebbles. " I steal by lawns, and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the blue forget-me-nots, That... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 pages
...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying buys, 1 babble on the' pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many... | |
 | 1884 - 492 pages
...sally. And sparkle out among the fera. To bicker down the valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or Blip between the ridges; By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's mill I flow To Join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...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. 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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