Riley farm-rhymes . 40. THE BROOK-SONG L ITTLE brook ! Little brook !You have such a happy look—Such a very merry manner, as you swerve andcurve and crook—And your ripples, one and each others liands and run Like laughing little children in the sun ! 41 THE BROOK-SONG Little brook, sing to me :Sing about a bumblebeeTliat tuuiblcd from a lily-bell and grumbled mum-bliiigh-,because he ^^et the fihn(M his wings, and had to swim, \Aliile the walcr-bugs raced r(jund andlaughed at him ! Little l)rook—sing a song( If a leaf that sailed alungDown the golden-braided centre of your currentswif

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Riley farm-rhymes . 40. THE BROOK-SONG L ITTLE brook ! Little brook !You have such a happy look—Such a very merry manner, as you swerve andcurve and crook—And your ripples, one and each others liands and run Like laughing little children in the sun ! 41 THE BROOK-SONG Little brook, sing to me :Sing about a bumblebeeTliat tuuiblcd from a lily-bell and grumbled mum-bliiigh-,because he ^^et the fihn(M his wings, and had to swim, \Aliile the walcr-bugs raced r(jund andlaughed at him ! Little l)rook—sing a song( If a leaf that sailed alungDown the golden-braided centre of your currentswift and strong,And a dragon-fly that lit()n the tilting rim of it, And rode awa} and \\asnt scared a bit. ;Vnd sing—how oft in gleeCame a truant bo} like me,Wdio loved to lean and listen to your lilting melodyTill the gurgle and refrainOf vonr music in his brain Wrought a happiness as keen to him aspain.

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