...NIP; NOBE; NOBW; NoP; OBNC; PoEL-5; PoRA; Prim; PWR; RB; TEP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WeW The Brook; an Idyl 4 e. (1. 21-24) 18 Their monument sticks like a fishbone...city's throat. Its Colonel is as lean as a compass-ne (1. 1 -4) 5 And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may...

...many students, charges at a poem ('The Brook') when called upon to recite the ill-remembered piece: I come from haunts of coot and hern I make a sudden sally and -er-hem-er-hem- the fern to bicker down a valley Of course it is a nonsense, but a telling parody....

...copallina SHINING SUMAC Sassafras albidum SASSAFRAS Ulmus americana AMERICAN ELM \ Betsy Ewing Ferns 'I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " The Song of the Brook" Alfred, Lord Tennyson T J. he word fern has always made me picture rushing...

...says, "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 salty And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down Or slip...

...seems influenced by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Brook" (1855) with its inset quatrains beginning "I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley" (11. 24-27). See also quotations p. 327, n. 1; p. 370, n.2. "The Brook" was in the Fifth Royal Reader...

...come to me now with the bacchanal sign, And the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. (vi) I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. [. . .] For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. (vii) I have been half in love with...

...Break, Break' But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! 11473 'The Brook' I come from haunts of coot and hern, I...make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, 11451 To bicker down a valley. 1 1474 'The Brook' For men may come and men may go, But I go on for...

...(Shift-Enter* )(turn on View > Show Invisibles to see it) I cnme from haunts of cool and hern. 1 make a IBadn sally. .And sparkle out among the fern. To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hum- down. Or slip between the ridges, Bv tweniv thorps, a little town. And half a hundred bridges....

...blossoms, and blossoms she has had from that day to this. — Legend 33 I come from haunts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. 1 chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the...

...Australians went to look at this stream that so many of them had heard about it was Alfred Tennyson's brook: I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. The Fifth Book of the Victorian Education Department's readers even had sketches of it winding between...