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.


Directions for Reading.—Point out the places in the poem where two lines should be joined in reading.

Mark the inflection of the following lines.

"I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,