<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416774" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Brook-Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little brook! Little brook!<br>You have such a happy look--<br>Such a very merry manner, as you swerve and<br>curve and crook--<br>And your ripples, one and one,<br>Reach each other's hands and run<br>Like laughing little children in the sun!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little brook, sing to me:<br>Sing about a bumblebee<br>That tumbled from a lily-bell and grumbled<br>mumblingly,<br>Because he wet the film<br>Of his wings, and had to swim,<br>While the water-bugs raced round and<br>laughed at him!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little brook-sing a song<br>Of a leaf that sailed along<br>Down the golden-braided centre of your current<br>swift and strong,<br>And a dragon-fly that lit<br>On the tilting rim of it,<br>And rode away and wasn't scared a bit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sing--how oft in glee<br>Came a truant boy like me,<br>Who loved to lean and listen to your lilting<br>melody,<br>Till the gurgle and refrain<br>Of your music in his brain<br>Wrought a happiness as keen to him<br>as pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little brook-laugh and leap!<br>Do not let the dreamer weep:<br>Sing him all the songs of summer till he sink in<br>softest sleep;<br>And then sing soft and low<br>Through his dreams of long ago--<br>Sing back to him the rest he used to<br>know!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416774" data-title="The Brook-Song de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Little brook! Little brook! You have such a happy look-- Such a very merry manner, as you swerve and curve and crook-- And your ripples, one and one, Reach each other's hands and run Like laughing little children in the sun! Little brook, sing to..."></div> </div> </div>

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