By Castle and River

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.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The other week the weather was so nice, I went outside into the woods. They are all bare, of course, but when the air is lovely it really doesn't matter.

I found a fallen tree to sit on. And I sat there for the longest time. It was so quiet. There were noises, of course, but quite forest noises.

It was so delightful.

In the Forest of Arden, by Hon John Collier

Have a wonderful day.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'm sure it was delightful. :)

~ A.K. ~; January 27, 2011 at 7:10 AM
Julie said...: It was!

(Note: I did not have a jester with me. This picture was just the only one that came close. :) ); January 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM

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