Why did the children come to play on its banks? They came to pick the flowers.
What line shows you that? "Blossoms floating." The children picked the flowers and threw some on the stream to watch the current carry them away.
What else were the children doing? They were sailing toy boats in the water.
What words show you that? "Mimic boating."
What else did the children enjoy? They liked to see the "Fishes darting past" them. The fishes were timid.
The brook makes some very pleasant sounds. What words show you that? "Rippling", "Bubbling", "singing", "ringing".
When does the water make these sounds? When it is running "over pebbles" or down the steep places.
You must fancy you hear the brook make its gentle music when it is running over the pebbles. What does the water look like when it ripples? It is not smooth; it has tiny waves upon it.
You have heard the water bubble and gurgle, and then, when the stream grows large and runs faster, you can hear it "singing" and "ringing" in the distance. The poet tells us some pretty things about the brook. Tell me some of them. It was "Cool and clear and free".
Why was it "Cool"? It had flowed among the grasses and had come from a spring in a mountain.