 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.  Anchora of Delta Gamma - Page 1741902Full view - About this book
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. 5 By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. TiU last by Philip's farm I flow 10 To join the brimming river, For men may... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 728 pages
...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. — The Brook. B. The question with me is not whether you have a right to render... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...haunts of coot and hern : I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. hV)2 half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 1178 pages
...of coot anil hern, I innke n sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern To bicker down the valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half n hundred bridges; Till last by Philip's fariii 1 flow, To join the brimming river; For men may... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 360 pages
...of 2coot and shern, 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... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Folk literature - 1880 - 294 pages
...I had had more time. THE BOOK OF TALES. 41. -THE BROOK. i. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, 2. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps,ia little town, And half a hundred bridges. 3. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...of coot and hern : I make a ğudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. laugh'd, and laid him there, The half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come... | |
 | 1881 - 882 pages
...another whose names wo forgot. Wo have walked by some of them, and heard them sing the laureate's song. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. I clatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...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,... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - Elocution - 1881 - 498 pages
...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. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying... | |
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