| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Birds of Passage | Flight the Third.
The Brook and the Wave |
| | | THE BROOKLET came from the mountain, | |
| As sang the bard of old, | |
| Running with feet of silver | |
| Over the sands of gold! | |
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| Far away in the briny ocean | 5 |
| There rolled a turbulent wave, | |
| Now singing along the sea-beach, | |
| Now howling along the cave. | |
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| And the brooklet has found the billow, | |
| Though they flowed so far apart, | 10 |
| And has filled with its freshness and sweetness | |
| That turbulent, bitter heart! | | | | |
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