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One summer morn while yet the thrilling lay	A
Of the dew loving lark was full and strong	B
Trampling the wild flowers in my careless way	A
Up the steep mountain side I strode along	B
My only guide a brook whose joyous song	B
Seemed like a boy's light hearted roundelay	A
As down it rushed the leafy bowers among	C
Scattering o'er bud and bloom its pearly spray	A
A beauteous semblance of life's opening day	A
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And looking back to that all gladdening morn	D
When I was free and sportive as the stream	E
When roses blushed with no suspected thorn	D
And fancy's sunlight gilded every dream	E
While hope yet shed its sweet delusive beam	E
And disappointment still delayed to warn	D
With fond regret I still pursued the theme	E
With clambering step still up the steep was borne	D
Too sad to smile too pleased perchance to mourn	D
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And now I stood beside that rivulet's spring	F
That came unbidden with a bubbling bound	G
And stealing forth a gentle trembling thing	F
It seemed an infant fearing all around	G
Yet clinging to its mother's breast the ground	G
But soon it bolder grew and with a wing	F
It went its carol was a joyous sound	G
Making the silent woods responsive ring	F
And the far forest echoes sighing sing	F
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And now I stood upon the mountain's height	H
Like a wide map the landscape lay unrolled	H
There could I trace that rivulet's path of light	H
From the steep mountain to the sea of gold	H
Now leaping o'er the rocks like chamois bold	H
Now like a crouching hare concealed from sight	H
Now hid beneath the willow's bowering fold	H
As if they sought to stay its arrowy flight	H
Then give it forth again more swift and bright	H
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'Twas changeful beautiful now dark now fair	I
A tale of life from childhood to the tomb	J
Its birth place near the skies in mountain air	I
Where wild flowers throw around their sweet perfume	J
Like the blest thoughts that often brightly bloom	J
At home beneath a mother's culturing care	I
Its form now hid in shadows such as gloom	J
Our downward way its grave in ocean where	I
It mingles with the wave a dweller there	I
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And though that stream be hidden from the view	K
'Tis yet preserved 'neath ocean's briny crest	H
That wide eternity of waves is true	K
And as the planets anchored in their rest	H
The sparkling streamlet lives and while unblest	H
The land wave stagnant lingers there the blue	K
Tide holds the river stainless in its breast	H
An image still of life that sparkles through	K
The starry deep of heaven for ever new	K

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

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