| Florence Wilford - 1872 - 132 pages
..." The Brook," that one of the young ladies at the " seminary " was learning ; and the verses — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 pages
...youth Cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasaunce, Age is full of care."—Shakespeare. 19. " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sally, And 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 meals and... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 pages
...appropriates and can use it for his need. JOHN BROWN, MD I XXIV.— THE BROOK. i. COME from haunt* of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. II. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges; By twenty thorps, a little town, And... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...knowledge is not truly wise unless he appropriates and can use it for his need. JOHN BROWX, MD XXIV.— THE BROOK. i. COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make n sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. n. By thirty hills I hurry... | |
| William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...when the brighter scroll of heaven is read, There will their names be written. ALFRED TENNYSON. 49FROM "THE BROOK," I come from haunts of coot and hern,...By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred ridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may... | |
| 1873 - 296 pages
...fountain-dwelling The holy stars of God ! EDUAHD MOEKIKE (German). Translation of JAMES CI.ARENCE MA SCAN. SONG OF THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern ; I...sparkle out among the fern. To bicker down a valley. U4 By thirty hills I hurry clown, Or slip between the ridges : By twenty thorps, a little town, And... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 pages
...a-field to brooks and bowers." — CHURCHILL.] X 1 IRrJFjl COME from haunts of coot and hern, IE? VJ ^ make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, SUNS." — TENNYS< 3 . Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...his rhyme, Whence come you ? ' and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and herr, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hnrry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...(as who shall scorn to own ?) A tutelar fond voiee, a saviour tone of love. CHARLES TENNYSON. SONG OF }> S tbe fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 pages
...' O babbling brook,' says Edmund in his 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 amonp; the fern, To bicker down a valley. Ey thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges,... | |
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