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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. "
New National First [-fifth] Reader - Page 287
by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pages
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The Intermediate Reader: For the Use of Schools : with an Introductory ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1843 - 260 pages
...coot1 and hern,' I make a sudden sally,3 And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker4 down a valley. 2. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the...thorps," a little town, And half a hundred bridges. 3. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go,...
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Watson's ... book of reading. [Another], Book 5

George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 pages
...the glad New Year: So, if you 're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear. Tennyson. THE BKOOK. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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 the...
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Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader, Volume 9

1864 - 402 pages
...Tennvson ?h ;.'.' answer for thee : — I come from hatmt of coot and heron, I make a sudden sally ; I sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley....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...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 422 pages
...it not sing essentially the same song to us that the brook did which Tennyson has thus translated ? I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirsty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a...
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English composition in prose and verse, based on grammatical synthesis ...

Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...youth Cannot live together ; Touth is full of pleasaunce, Age is full of care." — Shakespeare. 19. " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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 meats and sheep ?"...
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The children of the great king, by M.H.

Matilda Horsburgh - 1865 - 228 pages
...but before they went, Claude* struck up (and was soon joined by the voices of the others) the song of the Brook : — ' I come from haunts of coot and hern,...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...
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Brook Silvertone, and The lost lilies, 2 stories, Volume 138

Emma Marshall - 1865 - 218 pages
...and therefore sought an opportunity to open the subject with Grace Lee. A SUNDAY EVENING AT BERYL. ' By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.' CHAPTER VI. A SUNDAY EVENING AT BERYL. LADY FORRESTER'S...
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Laurie's Graduated series of reading lesson books, Book 5

James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pages
...fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! Longfellow THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I...down, Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorps, fa little town, And half a hundred bridges. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...
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Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, Volume 35

1884 - 492 pages
...life-time to have saved two such men as the Czar of Russia and lialph Vennor !" Song of the Brook. I COHZ from haunts of coot and Hern : I make a sudden 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...
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Aesthetics: Or, The Science of Beauty

John Bascom - 1867 - 278 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...
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