Poems (Southey)/Volume 1/Sonnet 6 - To a Brook near the Village of Corston

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Poems
by Robert Southey
Sonnet 6 - To a Brook near the Village of Corston
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SONNET VI.



To a BROOK near the Village of Corston.



As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream  And watch thy current, Memory's hand pourtrays  The faint form'd scenes of the departed days,Like the far forest by the moon's pale beamDimly descried yet lovely. I have worn  Upon thy banks the live-long hour away.  When sportive Childhood wantoned thro' the day,Joy'd at the opening splendour of the morn,Or as the twilight darken'd, heaved the sigh  Thinking of distant home; as down my cheek  At the fond thought slow stealing on, would speakThe silent eloquence of the full eye.Dim are the long past days, yet still they pleaseAs thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze.1794.