...and "tinkling rivulet,"** and the " babbling brook's" autobiographic song begins, in mimetic diction, I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.ft A critical point it is, in Mr. Barbara's " Hand of Glory" legend, when— hush! All is silent!...

...Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, Bat I go on forever. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles I babble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field...

...coot ami hern ; I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. 431 By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret, By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow....

...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,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow....

...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,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And m;iny a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow....

...down, Or slip between the ridges; By twenty thorps,* a little town, And half a hundred bridges; S. I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 4. And out again I curve and flow, To join the brimming river ; For men may come, and men may go, But...

...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,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow....

...hurry down, Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...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...

...Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorp.-*,1 a little town, And half a hundred bridges ; 3. 1 chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles,...bubble Into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 4 And out again I curve and flow, To join the brimming river ; For men may come, and men may go, But...

...haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out amorfg the fern, To bicker down a valley. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddyiiig bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow,...