New National Fourth Reader by Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes


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Page 116

With many a curve my bank I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-wood and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel.

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses.

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.


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Directions for Reading.--Point out the places in the poem where two
lines should be joined in reading.

Mark the _inflection_ of the following lines.

"I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows."

"For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever."

Read the last two lines, and state whether the _inflected words_ are
also _emphatic words_.

Find a similar example of _inflection_ and _emphasis_ upon the same
words in the last stanza of Lesson XXXVI.


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Language Lesson.--Let pupils explain the meaning of the following
expressions.

_Join the brimming river_.

_Netted sunbeam_.


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