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" 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. "
Poetry of the Seasons - Page 37
1898 - 336 pages
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Accepted Addresses; Or, Proemium Poetarum: To which are Added, Macbeth ...

Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...Pray for their souls who died for love, For Love shall still be lord of all! THE BROOK. LORD TENNYSON. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 25-26

1876 - 396 pages
...living poets stood one fine day watching such a stream, he heard it singing, and this was its song : I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles ; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 5, Part 1

Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...which we here insert, placing the detached lines together : — 1 come from Imimts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern....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 coma and men may go,J But...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volume 17

1855 - 606 pages
...one from " The Brook," which is extremely original and striking, as well as musically perfect : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. " Till last by Philip's farm I How, To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But...
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The National Review, Volume 1

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...We quote, in a connected form, what is unmistakeably the gem of all that is new in the book : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 1855 - 180 pages
...O babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern , I make a sudden...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I como from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...
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Maud: And Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...his rhyme, "Whence come you?" and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But...
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