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the air and through rays of light as well, and through
darkness, and through men and women."I hear and see the inundation and the eternal
spending of the stream in winter and in summer, in men
and animals, in passion and thought. Happy are they
who can hear it."

"Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,
Repeats the music of the rain;
But sweeter rivers pulsing flit
Through thee, as thou through Concord plain.

"Thou in thy narrow banks are pent;
The stream I love unbounded goes
Through flood and sea and firmament;
Through light, through life, it forward flows.

"I see the inundation sweet,
I bear the spending of the stream
Through years, through men, through nature fleet,
Through love and thought, through power and dream."

I also suggest for classroom discussion the following
brief passages from recent verse, printed. without the
authors' names:
1. "The milkman never argues; he works alone and
no one speaks to him; the city is asleep when he is on his
job; he puts a bottle on six hundred porches and calls
it a day's work; he climbs two hundred wooden stair.
ways; two horses are company for him; he never argues."
2. "Sometimes I have nervous moments --
there is a girl who looks at me strangely
as much as to say,
You are a young man,

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Publication Information: Book Title: A Study of Poetry. Contributors: Bliss Perry - author. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1920. Page Number: 367.
    
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