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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508097" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cataract of Lodore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How does the water<br>Come down at Lodore?'<br>My little boy asked me<br>Thus, once on a time;<br>And moreover he tasked me<br>To tell him in rhyme.<br>Anon, at the word,<br>There first came one daughter,<br>And then came another,<br>To second and third<br>The request of their brother,<br>And to hear how the water<br>Comes down at Lodore,<br>With its rush and its roar,<br>As many a time<br>They had seen it before.<br>So I told them in rhyme,<br>For of rhymes I had store;<br>And 'twas in my vocation<br>For their recreation<br>That so I should sing;<br>Because I was Laureate<br>To them and the King.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From its sources which well<br>In the tarn on the fell;<br>From its fountains<br>In the mountains,<br>Its rills and its gills;<br>Through moss and through brake,<br>It runs and it creeps<br>For a while, till it sleeps<br>In its own little lake.<br>And thence at departing,<br>Awakening and starting,<br>It runs through the reeds,<br>And away it proceeds,<br>Through meadow and glade,<br>In sun and in shade,<br>And through the wood-shelter,<br>Among crags in its flurry,<br>Helter-skelter,<br>Hurry-skurry.<br>He re it comes sparkling,<br>And there it lies darkling;<br>Now smoking and frothing<br>Its tumult and wrath in,<br>Till, in this rapid race<br>On which it is bent,<br>It reaches the place<br>Of its steep descent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cataract strong<br>Then plunges along,<br>Striking and raging<br>As if a war waging<br>Its caverns and rocks among;<br>Rising and leaping,<br>Sinking and creeping,<br>Swelling and sweeping,<br>Showering and springing,<br>Flying and flinging,<br>Writhing and ringing,<br>Eddying and whisking,<br>Spouting and frisking,<br>Turning and twisting,<br>Around and around<br>With endless rebound:<br>Smiting and fighting,<br>A sight to delight in;<br>Confounding, astounding,<br>Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Collecting, projecting,<br>Receding and speeding,<br>And shocking and rocking,<br>And darting and parting,<br>And threading and spreading,<br>And whizzing and hissing,<br>And dripping and skipping,<br>And hitting and splitting,<br>And shining and twining,<br>And rattling and battling,<br>And shaking and quaking,<br>And pouring and roaring,<br>And waving and raving,<br>And tossing and crossing,<br>And flowing and going,<br>And running and stunning,<br>And foaming and roaming,<br>And dinning and spinning,<br>And dropping and hopping,<br>And working and jerking,<br>And guggling and struggling,<br>And heaving and cleaving,<br>And moaning and groaning;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And glittering and frittering,<br>And gathering and feathering,<br>And whitening and brightening,<br>And quivering and shivering,<br>And hurrying and skurrying,<br>And thundering and floundering;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dividing and gliding and sliding,<br>And falling and brawling and sprawling,<br>And driving and riving and striving,<br>And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling,<br>And sounding and bounding and rounding,<br>And bubbling and troubling and doubling,<br>And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling,<br>And clattering and battering and shattering;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting,<br>Delaying and straying and playing and spraying,<br>Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing,<br>Recoiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling,<br>And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming,<br>And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing,<br>And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,<br>And curling and whirling and purling and twirling,<br>And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping,<br>And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing;<br>And so never ending, but always descending,<br>Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending<br>All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, -<br>And this way the water comes down at Lodore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</a><div class=q>
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Come down at Lodore?'
My little boy asked me
Thus, once on a time;
And moreover he tasked me
To tell him in rhyme.
Anon, at the word,
There first came one daughter,
And then came another,
To second and third
The request of thei..."></div>
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