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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROOK SONG, by JAMES HERBERT MORSE Poet's Biography
First Line: Brook, would thou couldst flow
Last Line: And the wind in the willow tree.
First Line: Brook, would thou couldst flow
Last Line: And the wind in the willow tree.
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 below,
And the violets watched thy flow,
With the babble of two by thee,
And the wind in the willow tree!
O Brook, if thou couldst so
Make a living music, and sing
Of a faded, bygone spring,
And down by the violets flow
With that babble of Long Ago, --
I would listen forever to thee
And the wind in the willow tree.
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