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SONG OF THE BROOK 
 By ALFRED'TENNYSON 
 
 WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN 
 PHOTOGRAVURE 
 
 BOSTON PUBLISHED BY 
 JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY 
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 Copyright, 1892, 
 By Joseph Knight Company. 
 
 John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Alfred Tennyson. — /'t7;/ra//' Frontispiece 
 
 The Brook Titlepage ^ 
 
 "I COME FROM HAUNTS OF COOT AND HERN " Page 6^ 
 
 " By thirty hills I hurry down " 8 ^ 
 
 "Till last by Philip's farm I flow" lo ^ 
 
 "I chatter over stony ways" 12 v/ 
 
 "With many a curve my banks I fret" 14 v 
 
 " I chatter, chatter, as I FLOW " l6 v 
 
 "I WIND about and in AND OUT" l8 ^ 
 
 "And here and there a foamy flake" 20 • 
 
 "And DRAW THEM all along and flow" 22 V 
 
 "I steal by lawns AND GRASSY PLOTS " 24 v 
 
 "I slip, I SLIDE, I GLOOM, I GLANCE " 26 ^ 
 
 "I MURMUR UNDER MOON AND STARS " . ., 28 v' 
 
 "And out again I curve and flow" 30 v' 
 
 "But I GO ON forever" Tailpiece 
 
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SONG OF THE BROOK, 
 
 COME from haunts of coot and hern 
 I make a sudden sally, 
 And sparkle out among the fern 
 To bicker down a valley. 
 
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 To join the brimming river; 
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A ND draw them all along, and flow 
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 For men may come and men may go, 
 But I go on forever. 
 
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T STEAL by lawns and grassy plots 
 
 I slide by hazel covers ; 
 I move the sweet forget-me-nots 
 That grow for happy lovers. 
 
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T SLIP, I slide, I gloom, I glance, 
 Among my skimming swallows ; 
 I make the netted sunbeams dance 
 Against my sandy shallows; 
 
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T MURMUR under moon and stars 
 
 In brambly wildernesses ; 
 I linger by my shingly bars ; 
 ' I loiter round my cresses; 
 
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A ND out again I curve and flow 
 To join the brimming river; 
 For men may come and men may go, 
 But I go on forever. 
 
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