By Castle and River: Today

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.

Friday, December 31, 2010

Today

Today was like spring. The weather was perfect, perfect to me, that is. And with the snow that we had melting, that made it seem very much like spring. And once, while I was out side, I could have been positive that I smelled crocuses. And I know for a fact that there aren't any right now. Only paper whites. But it really was very much like spring today. I guess if winter was a hurricane, we would be in the eye right now. That is the way it seems. It was lovely.

Have a wonderful day.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: It has been a bit warm here, as well, and our snow has been melting, too. It'll be colder again in a day or two, though, and we'll probably get more snow. :)

~ A.K. ~; January 1, 2011 at 7:38 AM
Julie said...: Well, we probably won't get more snow...

It will get cooler though, I am sure of it. :); January 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM

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