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Beauties of Tennyson
Beauties of Tennyson
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    Beauties of Tennyson - Frederic B. Schell

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Beauties of Tennyson, by Alfred Tennyson

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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    Title: Beauties of Tennyson

    Author: Alfred Tennyson

    Illustrator: Frederic B. Schell

    Release Date: November 23, 2007 [EBook #23597]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEAUTIES OF TENNYSON ***

    Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the

    Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

    LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE.

    BEAUTIES

    OF

    TENNYSON.

    20 ILLUSTRATIONS BY

    FREDERIC B. SCHELL.

    PORTER & COATES,

    PHILADELPHIA.

    Copyright,

    1885,

    By Porter & Coates.


    CONTENTS


    Contents

    THE BROOK.

    I come from haunts of coot and hern,

    I make sudden sally

    And sparkle out among the fern,

    To bicker down a valley.

    By thirty hills I hurry down,

    Or slip between the ridges,

    By twenty thorps, a little town,

    And half a hundred bridges.


    I chatter over stony ways,

    In little sharps and trebles,

    I bubble into eddying bays,

    I babble on the pebbles.

    With many a curve my banks I fret

    By many a field and fallow,

    And many a fairy foreland set

    With willow-weed and mallow.


    And here and there a foamy lake

    Upon me, as I travel

    With many a silvery waterbreak

    Above the golden gravel,

    And draw

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