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Looking-Glass River
Project Gutenberg #136
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Source: Project Gutenberg #136 Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/136 Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885). Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition a-childs-garden-of-verses at bytes 24002-24942; checksum 4b0a29e1492759dfd117c6a3cf95ae4d6dc8329662bdec6645867e3aa07ca4de.
# Looking-Glass River
Looking-Glass River
Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam-- O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream!
Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Paven pools as clear as air-- How a child wishes To live down there!
We can see our colored faces Floating on the shaken pool Down in cool places, Dim and very cool;
Till a wind or water wrinkle, Dipping marten, plumping trout, Spreads in a twinkle And blots all out.
See the rings pursue each other; All below grows black as night, Just as if mother Had blown out the light!
Patience, children, just a minute-- See the spreading circles die; The stream and all in it Will clear by-and-by.
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