Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
The Streamlet
By George Crabbe (17541832)(From The Borough)
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Thy upland forest or thy valley’s flood?
Seek then thy garden’s shrubby bound, and look,
As it steals by, upon the bordering brook;
That winding streamlet, limpid, lingering, slow,
Where the reeds whisper when the zephyrs blow;
Where in the midst, upon her throne of green,
Sits the large lily as the water’s queen;
And makes the current, forced awhile to stay,
Murmur and bubble as it shoots away.