Child life: a collection of poems . overs,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. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ;I linger by my shingly bars ; 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 forever. — Alfred Tennyson. THE GLADNESS OF NATUEE. Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around. When even the deep blue heavens
Child life: a collection of poems . overs,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. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ;I linger by my shingly bars ; 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 forever. — Alfred Tennyson. THE GLADNESS OF NATUEE. Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around. When even the deep blue heavens look glad. And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground ? There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and the gossip of swallows through all the sky ; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his the wilding-bee hums merrily by. lOi CniLD LIFE. The clouds are at play in the azure space, And then shadows at play on the bright green vale, And here they stretch to the frolic there they roll on the easy Theres a dance of leaves in that aspen ftower ; There s a titter of winds in that beechen tree ;Theres a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower. And a laugh from the Vuook that runs to the sea. our OF DOORS. 105 And look at the broad-faced sun, how he sniOes On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray,On the leaping waters and gay young isles, — Ay, look, and he 11 smile thy gloom away ! — William Gullen Bryant.
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