I wish to wander, I wish to roam: By forest and meadow, Silver and emerald, By tree and field, Lovely and bright.
Many a place I'd like to see, Many a place I long go: By village and brook , Small and fair, By castle and river, Noble and grand.
I wish to wander, I wish to roam, For many a place I long to see.
~ Sileas MacNab
Bodiam Castle, England
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.
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Yeah, I guess you are right. I just keep telling myself, the worst is yet to come. The cold really doesn't bother me as much as it does the others in my family, though. :)
Well, with such a cheery outlook, no wonder you wish it over with already! :) I am determined that I am going to enjoy winter, even though people keep telling me that I will get sick of it.
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Nope. :)
I didn't think so. :)
Yes, it is. We haven't gotten buried in snow yet. :p
~ A.K. ~
Yeah, I guess you are right. I just keep telling myself, the worst is yet to come. The cold really doesn't bother me as much as it does the others in my family, though. :)
Well, with such a cheery outlook, no wonder you wish it over with already! :) I am determined that I am going to enjoy winter, even though people keep telling me that I will get sick of it.
~ A.K. ~
I know you are looking forward to it, A.K, and I would be too! :)
And I'm glad you are looking forward to it!
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