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Where Autumn runnels fret and foam	A
Past banks of amber fern	B
Since track was none I chanced to roam	A
Along a Border burn	B
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The rain was gone the winds were furled	C
No cloud was in the sky	D
So that there seemed in all the world	C
Only the stream and I	D
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At length upon a grey green stone	E
I sate me down to dream	F
Till with its flow familiar grown	E
I thus addressed the stream	F
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Dear Border Burn that had your birth	G
Where hills stand bright and high	D
Whose lowlier parent is the earth	G
Whose loftier the sky	D
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Half heavenly therefore in your source	H
Withal to man akin	I
Betraying by your wayward course	H
Your mingled origin	J
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Why in a scene so fair as this	K
Not linger while you may	L
And lengthen out unchided bliss	K
In childlike holiday	L
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Encircled here by native hills	M
And fringed by wilding flowers	N
With all your playmate sister rills	N
To wile away the hours	N
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Past glowing heather silvery sedge	O
You hurry on and on	P
Rush at the rock then leap the ledge	O
All eager to be gone	Q
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For you the mavis thrills the brake	R
For you the laverocks soar	S
And even snow and sleet but make	R
You dance and sing the more	S
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The water ouzels dip and shoot	C
Amid your flashing spray	L
Where flapping heron skimming coot	C
Forage and pair and play	L
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The forest doe forsakes the hill	T
Companioned by her fawn	Q
In your clear pools to drink her fill	T
As darkness yields to dawn	Q
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When meadows gleam with burnished gold	C
Some tender bosomed maid	C
Comes down from far off manse or fold	C
And under birchen shade	C
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Trembles to tale of manhood brave	U
Or courtship long and sweet	C
And sometimes in your freshening wave	U
Will dip her dainty feet	C
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And deaf to sound from neighbouring glen	V
Of summer cooing doves	N
Hear but your voice and deem it then	V
The voice of him she loves	N
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And be the season keen or kind	C
Frowning or fair the sky	D
The poet with his musing mind	C
Hither will ofttimes hie	W
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And listening lost among the fern	B
To murmur sweet or strong	X
Now not less strong than sweet doth learn	B
To modulate his song	X
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And thus attuned to every string	Y
Nature is skilled to strike	Z
Mellows the thoughts that comfort bring	Y
To glad and sad alike	Z
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Friends fond and faithful such as these	N
Why do you long to leave	A2
For scenes that since untried can please	N
But lure you to deceive	A2
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The forward quest the feverish chase	N
Foul city venal mart	C
Will cloud the fairness of your face	N
And desecrate your heart	C
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Here betwixt fern and flower you still	T
Can wind and wander free	B2
There granite banks will curb your will	T
And chain your liberty ''	-
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I ceased But though I paused to learn	B
No answer seemed to come	C2
And save an onward bickering burn	B
All now again was dumb	C2
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It rolled and rippled swept and swirled	C
No other sound was nigh	D
So that there seemed in all the world	C
Only the stream and I	D
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But like the babbled words that make	R
The mother's heart rejoice	N
Slowly the stream's soul seemed to wake	R
And find a human voice	N
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Till waxing stronger and more clear	D2
Still as it rushed along	X
Its answer sounded on mine ear	E2
Lucid as poet's song	X
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Here was I born here nursed and bred	C
From here shall carry still	T
Something of moor and bracken bed	C
Something of heath and hill	T
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Yet like to you who suckled first	C
Where becks through boulders wind	C
In youth from loving bondage burst	C
And left your home behind	C
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To seek the far off larger life	F2
Where mind with mind contends	N
On peaceful fields in generous strife	F2
To further loftier ends	N
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So do I quit my native hills	N
Red rowan hawthorn pearled	C
My brother braes my sister rills	N
To find a wider world	C
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And with a half reluctant heart	C
Leave dingle dale and wood	C
To bear a meek but manly part	C
In burdened brotherhood	C
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Why should I selfishly remain	G2
A simple mountain stream	F
Or shrink because some earthy stain	G2
Cloudeth each heavenly dream	F
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Chide me not then nor seek to stay	C
The current of my soul	H2
Though conflict check or chafe my way	C
The Ocean is my goal	H2
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Where I from sea to sea shall ride	C
Shall roll from shore to shore	S
And with the Universal Tide	C
Be one for evermore	S
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Yet by Heaven's Law of Love allowed	C
Revolving to return	B
Wafted by wind and borne on cloud	C
Still be a Border Burn ''	-

Alfred Austin

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