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.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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So yeah. I know I've not been a very good blogger lately. And I can't even say that I am going to try and do better, because every time I do, I don't.

There is a quote in Julius Caesar that goes something like this: "...Not that I love Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." What I'm saying is this, I don't dislike working on my blog. Au contraire. I love working on m blog, I just love doing other stuff more.

If you check my blog blog every day, I apologize.

Lots of times I think about blog posts to do, I just never actually do then. I know: it's not the thought that counts. And very often, the stuff I think about writing, I don't for a reason, so really, very often I just don't have anything to say. I hope you got what I was trying to say.

I know I said I wouldn't say this, but I think I am going to try and be a bit better.

Julie