brooklet

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Poor girl—I dance Where brooklets run, As chirp the birds My song flows on: I am the dove Which, hurt, must fall; Over my cradle Hangs death's pall.

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The sands are hard and gently shelving, with here and there a fresh-water brooklet trickling through the bulk-head of ballast heaped up at the top by the sea.

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We trace the steps of the Bront�s across the moor to the cascade, called now the "Bront� Falls," where a brooklet descends over great boulders into a shaded glen.

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Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

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Before we reach this, we find water on either side of us; that to the west being not from the Cam, but a small tributary brooklet which joins the river near the Great Bridge.

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