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THE FROZEN STREAM by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE

First Line: STREAM THAT LEAPT AND DANCED
Last Line: MURMURING ITS SONG?
Subject(s): BROOKS; STREAMS; CREEKS;

STREAM that leapt and danced
Down the rocky ledges,
All the summer long,
Past the flowered sedges,
Under the green rafters,
With their leafy laughters,
Murmuring your song:
Strangely still and tranced,
All your singing ended,
Wizardly suspended,
Icily adream;
When the new buds thicken,
Can this crystal quicken,
Now so strangely sleeping,
Once more go a-leaping
Down the rocky ledges,
All the summer long,
Murmuring its song?



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