Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 189
t still and small;By the cottage; by the hall;By the ruined abbey still;Turning here and there a mill;Bearing tribute to the river ;—Little streams, I love you ever 182 LITTLE STREAMS. Summer music is their flowing;Flowering plants in them are growing;Happy life is in them all,Creatures innocent… … a^^-^>.-*tsr..lc^^^:;,v^ Little streams have flowers a many.Beautiful and fair as any ; LITTLE STREAMS. 1S3 Typha strong, and green bur-reed ;Willow-herb with cotton-seed;Arrow-head with eye of jet;And the water-violet;There the flowering rush you meet;And the plumy meadow-sweet;And in places…
