By Castle and River: My Shire

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, May 20, 2011

My Shire

There is a little corner of our land that I think is about one of the most lovely places around. I never go there (No reason: it looks best from a distance.) but I love to look at it every time I go outside.

I like to think of it as my little tiny part of The Shire.

Lovely, isn't it?

4 comments:

Julie said...: P.S. That was seriously careful photography: our place really does not look that good...; May 20, 2011 at 9:55 AM
Anonymous said...: I recognize that spot!!

~ A.K. ~; May 21, 2011 at 6:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Wow,beautiful!!; May 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Julie said...: Thank you! :); May 22, 2011 at 9:27 AM

Friday, May 20, 2011

My Shire

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