...the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, IB 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...

...gleam, I glance Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeams danco Against my sandy shallows. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom...

...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banl;s I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed...

...he has made famous in song, and had been one of us, he would have made this very stream to say, ' ' I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles," And so on to the end of that "word painting" of a crystal stream, except that he could not have said...

...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...bubble into eddying bays ; I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my bank I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed...

...Darnley bridge, Ithasmoreivy; there the river; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...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...

...men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. Only one more verse, only one more river to cross. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. Sharps an' threbles—what do they mean? I know that to be sharp means to have an edge on anything...

...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. J chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...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...

...rather obvious example: in Tennyson's poem The Brook the brook's reply is a study in such virtuosity: I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles....bubble into eddying bays. I babble on the pebbles . . . When Virgil came to describe a farmer making a runnel (i. 108) he took his cue from a very expressive...

...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,...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...