<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532874" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By the Side of a Brook</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the bank of a rushing brook<br>I sat for hours watching its course.<br>Peered into the clear gurgling mass<br>That cascaded down from a mountainous source</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a slithering snake, it slinks and slips<br>It babbles downhill night and day <br>Rolling and gliding thro plains and dales<br>It winds its way to the wider bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dipping my fingers in its icy chill<br>How my hand got repelled as from a shock<br>In the ripples stirred by the kissing breeze<br>I saw trees, clouds and the jutting rock-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All floating in queer, fanciful shapes, <br>Shuddering, trembling and standing still <br>And the fishes leaving zigzag trails, <br>Swishing and swimming in the winding rill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I quietly watched her speedy flight<br>With her bosom rising in mournful heaves, <br>In my ears fell her whisperings soft<br>Orchestrated by the rustle of quivering leaves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hardly knew the time speeding by<br>Nor noticed the birds' homeward flight<br>Or the Sun moving to the west end side <br>And the Sky reddening at his sight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the brook thus continued her headlong ride<br>To be mingled finally with the ocean wide<br>I walked, brooding over man's relentless stride<br>To be merged eventually with the Cosmic Guide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Valsa+George">Valsa George</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=532874" data-title="By the Side of a Brook de Valsa George" data-description="On the bank of a rushing brook I sat for hours watching its course. Peered into the clear gurgling mass That cascaded down from a mountainous source Like a slithering snake, it slinks and slips It babbles downhill night and day Rolling and glidi..."></div> </div> </div>

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