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The Brook (Tennyson)

from Poetry and Music 7 by Toby Darling

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The Brook
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dm Am
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
Dm Am
I make a sudden sally
G A
And sparkle out among the fern,
Dm Am
To bicker down a valley.

Dm F
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Dm Am
Or slip between the ridges,
G A
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
Dm Am
And half a hundred bridges.

Em Bm
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
C D
To join the brimming river,
Em G
For men may come and men may go,
Am Bm Em
But I go on for ever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

G Dm
I murmur under moon and stars
F C A7
In brambly wildernesses;
Dm C
I linger by my shingly bars;
Dm A7
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

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from Poetry and Music 7, released January 5, 2017

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