By Castle and River: The Plitvice Lakes

The Brook

By: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

I 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.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying 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.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
with here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silver water-break
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Plitvice Lakes

The Plitvice Lakes is a national park in Croatia , situated at in the Plitvice Lakes municipality, in the mountainous region of Lika.
Here are some great websites that I found about it.

This is a link to The Plitvice Lakes National Park official website.
It has some really nice pictures, but its mostly for information about if you plan to travel there.
http://www.np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/eng/index.php

This site has lots of utterly beautiful pictures!
I highly recommend taking a look.
http://www.landscape-photo.net/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=plitvice

This one has some great pictures, too.
http://www.croatia-official.com/Plitvice-lakes-picture-gallery.html

This is an absolutely fabulous informational site! It only has one little picture but that is all it needs; Rick Steves's description is lovely.
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0411/rick_steves_croatia_plitvice_lakes.shtml

All pictures on this post are from Wikipedia and not my own.

Have fun exploring!

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