...nip, is not unkind; And dark midwinter days can bring As many pleasures as the spring. Lesson 204. — The Brook. I COME from haunts of coot and hern ; I...sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down the valley. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles ; I bubble into eddying bays ;...

...living poets stood one fine day watching such a stream, he heard it singing, and this was its song : 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...

...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...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...

...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...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...

...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I como from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...

...collect, so as to present it altogether : — " I come from haunt? of coot and hem, I make a sadden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down...By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridgea. " Till last by Philip's farm I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come and men...

...his rhyme, "Whence come you?" and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...

...one from " The Brook," which is extremely original and striking, as well as musically perfect : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " Till last by Philip's farm I How, To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But...

...scattered throughout the idyl, we bring together here : " I como from haunts of coot and hern, I nmke n sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker...valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between me ridgce, By twenty thorpe, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. "Till last by Philip's farm...

...We quote, in a connected form, what is unmistakeably the gem of all that is new in the book : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out amonj; the fern, To bicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges,...