CLIMBING HEMP-WEED. 



MIKANIA SCANDENS Willd. 



I COME from haunts of coot and hern, 



I make a sudden sally, 

 And sparkle out among the fern, 



To bicker down a valley. 



I chatter over stony ways, 



In little sharps and trebles, 



I bubble into eddying bays, 



And babble on the pebbles. 



I chatter, chatter, as I flow 



To join the brimming river, 



For men may come and men may go 

 But I go on forever. 



I wind about, and in and out, 

 With here a blossom sailing, 



And here and there a lusty trout, 

 And here and there a grayling; 



And draw them all along, and flow 

 To join the brimming river, 



For men may come and men may go, 

 But I go on forever. 



Tennyson. 



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