kling, 30
And sounding and bounding and rounding,
And bubbling and troubling and doubling;
Dividing and gliding and sliding,
Grumbling and rumbling and tumbling,
Clattering and battering and shattering,
And gleaming and streaming and skimming and beaming
And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, 5
And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,
And curling and whirling and purling and twirling;
Retreating and meeting and beating and sheeting,
Delaying and straying and spraying and playing,
Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing, 10
Recoiling, turmoiling, and toiling and boiling;
And thumping and bumping and flumping and jumping,
And thrashing and clashing and flashing and splashing;
And so never ending,
But always descending, 15
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending,
All at once and all o'er
With a mighty uproar;--
And this way the water comes down at Lodore.

1. The Falls of Lodore, in the Lake District,
England, consist of a series of cascades in which a
small stream rushes over a great rock about 200
feet high.

2. Read this poem aloud and notice how the sound
fits the sense. Does it give you an idea of the
sound of the waterfall? Why do you think the poet
uses first two, then three, and then four,
participles to a line? Other poems in which this
method of creating an impression of sound and
motion is used are Poe's "The Bells" and parts of
Browning's "How We Brought the Good News from Ghent
to Aix" and "The Pied Piper." Words like _bubble_
and _gurgle_ imitate sounds. Look for such words in
this poem and elsewhere.

3. Compare this poem with Lowell's "The Fountain,"
Tennyson's "The Brook," and Lanier's "Song of the
Chattahoochee." Decide which you like best, and
why.

_STORIES THAT TEACH_

_If any man can convince me and bring home to me
that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I
change; for I search after truth, by wh