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The Brook A little blind girl wandering, While daylight pales beneath the moon, And with a brook meandering, To hear its gentle tune. The little blind girl by the brook, It told her something—you might guess, To see her smile, to see her look... Poet: William Wilberforce	From "The Brook" Through his million veins are poured The splendors of the heaven whence he fell. Wise above his thought is he: Deep things he has to tell To such as with a swift dexterity Can aptly gloss his tangled word. To an eternal song he frames his dance,... Poet: William Bull Wright	Brook Song 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,... Poet: James Herbert Morse	The Valley Brook Fresh from the fountains of the wood A rivulet of the valley came, And glided on for many a rood, Flushed with the morning’s ruddy flame. The air was fresh and soft and sweet; The slopes in spring’s new verdure lay, And wet with dew-drops... Poet: John Howard Bryant
Song of the Brook From “The Brook: an Idyl” 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,... Poet: Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Because my Brook is fluent Because my Brook is fluent I know 'tis dry — Because my Brook is silent It is the Sea — And startled at its rising I try to flee To where the Strong assure me Is "no more Sea" — ... Poet:	Have you got a Brook in your little heart, Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so ? And nobody... Poet:	The Sea said "Come" to the Brook — The Sea said "Come" to the Brook — The Brook said "Let me grow" — The Sea said "Then you will be a Sea — I want a Brook — Come now"! The Sea said "Go" to the Sea. The Sea said "I am he You cherished... Poet:
The Well upon the Brook The Well upon the Brook Were foolish to depend — Let Brooks — renew of Brooks — But Wells — of failless Ground! Poet: