...eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were very apt to murmur. Another word, bicker, is unusual: I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle, out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Bicker, its sound, and the suggestion of chattering, possibly arguing and pushing...

...thought for some reason so suitable for young girls after their first communion. 'I come,' he read, 'from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally,...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.' It was a very obscure poem, full of words which were like Esperanto. He thought: So this is English...

...NIP; NOBE; NOBW; NoP; OBNC; PoEL-5; PoRA; Prim; PWR; RB; TEP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WeW The Brook; an Idyl 4 e. (1. 21-24) 18 Their monument sticks like a fishbone...city's throat. Its Colonel is as lean as a compass-ne (1. 1 -4) 5 And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may...

...many students, charges at a poem ('The Brook') when called upon to recite the ill-remembered piece: I come from haunts of coot and hern I make a sudden sally and -er-hem-er-hem- the fern to bicker down a valley Of course it is a nonsense, but a telling parody....

...copallina SHINING SUMAC Sassafras albidum SASSAFRAS Ulmus americana AMERICAN ELM \ Betsy Ewing Ferns 'I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " The Song of the Brook" Alfred, Lord Tennyson T J. he word fern has always made me picture rushing...

...says, "O babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, "Whence come you?" and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden salty And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down Or slip...

...seems influenced by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Brook" (1855) with its inset quatrains beginning "I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley" (11. 24-27). See also quotations p. 327, n. 1; p. 370, n.2. "The Brook" was in the Fifth Royal Reader...

...come to me now with the bacchanal sign, And the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. (vi) I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. [. . .] For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. (vii) I have been half in love with...

...Break, Break' But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! 11473 'The Brook' I come from haunts of coot and hern, I...make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, 11451 To bicker down a valley. 1 1474 'The Brook' For men may come and men may go, But I go on for...

...(Shift-Enter* )(turn on View > Show Invisibles to see it) I cnme from haunts of cool and hern. 1 make a IBadn sally. .And sparkle out among the fern. To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hum- down. Or slip between the ridges, Bv tweniv thorps, a little town. And half a hundred bridges....