I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars,
I loiter round my cresses;
And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river;
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.
DEFINITIONS:--Coot, a kind of wild duck. Hern, a wading bird,
heron. Bicker, run with a quivering, tremulous motion. Thorps,
small villages. Foreland, headland. Shingly, gravelly.
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee,
and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from
beyond Jordan. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a
mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him.
And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying: Blessed are the
poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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