brook, would thou couldst flow
With a music all thine own—
Thy babble of music alone—
Not a word of the Long Ago
In thy brawling down below,
Not a sigh of the wind by thee,
The wind in the willow tree!
Or, Brook, if thou couldst go,
As once, in the prime of May,
For a whole long holiday,
When the cowslips down...