41. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
42. Among my skimming swallows;
43. I make the netted sunbeams dance
44. Against my sandy shallows.
45. I murmur under moon and stars
46. In brambly wildernesses;
47. I linger by my shingly bars;
48. I loiter round my cresses;
49. And out again I curve and flow
50. To join the brimming river;
51. For men may come, and men may go,
52. But I go on forever.
As a whole, this piece requires for quality of voice the pure tone; force, gentle; movement, moderate; pitch, middle; stress, median. The variations in modulation must be from these, and will be mostly variations in quality, movement, and pitch.
Lines 2 to 6. Movement, quick; pitch, high; with quality changing on words sudden, sparkle, bicker, hurry, slip, in such a way as to suggest the meaning of the word.
Lines 7 to 12. Movement, moderate; pitch, middle.
Lines 13 to 16. Movement, quick; pitch, high; the words chatter, stony, sharps, trebles, bubble, babble, spoken with suggestion of their meaning.
Lines 17 to 20. Movement, moderate; pitch, middle.
Lines 21 to 24. Movement, quick; pitch, high; make quality suggest on chatter, brimming.