Poem by John Bannister Tabb

The Brook

It is the mountain to the sea
That makes a messenger of me;
And, lest I loiter on the way
And lose what I am sent to say,
He sets his reverie to song,
And bids me sing it all day long.
Farewell! for here the stream is slow,
And I have many a mile to go.

1. The Pleiads
2. The Bee and the Blossoms
3. The Bobolink
4. The Woodpecker
5. Slumber-Song

Madison Cawein The Brook ("To it the forest tells")

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