Poems (Browning)/Summer (A little brook chattered so merrily by)
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Summer
A little brook chattered so merrily by, Singing a song as it babbled along,Telling each comer the cheer of the summer, While close to its banks clung a white butterfly.
The birds in the rushes oft sung to the flowers; Long happy notes rose from warbling throats,Sweet as the June in enchantment and tune, And bees labored on through the long happy hours.