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How does the water	A
Come down at Lodore	A
My little boy asked me	B
Thus once on a time	C
And moreover he tasked me	B
To tell him in rhyme	C
Anon at the word	D
There first came one daughter	A
And then came another	A
To second and third	D
The request of their brother	A
And to hear how the water	A
Comes down at Lodore	A
With its rush and its roar	A
As many a time	C
They had seen it before	A
So I told them in rhyme	C
For of rhymes I had store	A
And 'twas in my vocation	E
For their recreation	E
That so I should sing	F
Because I was Laureate	G
To them and the King	F
	-
From its sources which well	H
In the tarn on the fell	H
From its fountains	I
In the mountains	I
Its rills and its gills	J
Through moss and through brake	K
It runs and it creeps	L
For a while till it sleeps	L
In its own little lake	K
And thence at departing	F
Awakening and starting	F
It runs through the reeds	M
And away it proceeds	M
Through meadow and glade	N
In sun and in shade	N
And through the wood shelter	A
Among crags in its flurry	A
Helter skelter	A
Hurry skurry	A
Here it comes sparkling	F
And there it lies darkling	F
Now smoking and frothing	F
Its tumult and wrath in	O
Till in this rapid race	P
On which it is bent	Q
It reaches the place	P
Of its steep descent	Q
	-
The cataract strong	F
Then plunges along	F
Striking and raging	F
As if a war waging	F
Its caverns and rocks among	F
Rising and leaping	F
Sinking and creeping	F
Swelling and sweeping	F
Showering and springing	F
Flying and flinging	F
Writhing and wringing	F
Eddying and whisking	F
Spouting and frisking	F
Turning and twisting	F
Around and around	R
With endless rebound	R
Smiting and fighting	F
A sight to delight in	O
Confounding astounding	F
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound	R
	-
Collecting projecting	F
Receding and speeding	F
And shocking and rocking	F
And darting and parting	F
And threading and spreading	F
And whizzing and hissing	F
And dripping and skipping	F
And hitting and splitting	F
And shining and twining	F
And rattling and battling	F
And shaking and quaking	F
And pouring and roaring	F
And waving and raving	F
And tossing and crossing	F
And flowing and going	F
And running and stunning	F
And foaming and roaming	F
And dinning and spinning	F
And dropping and hopping	F
And working and jerking	F
And guggling and struggling	F
And heaving and cleaving	F
And moaning and groaning	F
And glittering and frittering	F
And gathering and feathering	F
And whitening and brightening	F
And quivering and shivering	F
And hurrying and skurrying	F
And thundering and floundering	F
	-
Dividing and gliding and sliding	F
And falling and brawling and sprawling	F
And driving and riving and striving	F
And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling	F
And sounding and bounding and rounding	F
And bubbling and troubling and doubling	F
And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling	F
And clattering and battering and shattering	F
	-
Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting	F
Delaying and straying and playing and spraying	F
Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing	F
Recoiling turmoiling and toiling and boiling	F
And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming	F
And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing	F
And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping	F
And curling and whirling and purling and twirling	F
And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping	F
And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing	F
And so never ending but always descending	F
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending	F
All at once and all o'er with a mighty uproar	A
And this way the water comes down at Lodore	A

Robert Southey

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