The Brook

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I ______ a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
______ bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a ______ town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip’s farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For ______ may come and men may go,
But I go ______ forever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps ______ trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on ______ pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
______ many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy ______ set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as ______ flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may ______ and men may go,
But I go on forever.

______ wind about, and in and out,
with here a ______ sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And ______ and there a grayling,

And here and there a ______ flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a ______ water-break
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men ______ come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide ______ hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow ______ happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam ______
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and ______
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
______ loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve ______ flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may ______ and men may go,
But I go on forever.

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