Versos English George Meredith Iv

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You dear old brook, that from his Grace’s park Come bounding! on you run near my old town: My lord can’t lock the water; nor the lark, Unless he kills him, can my lord keep down. Up, is the song-note! I’ve tried it, too:—for comfort and renown, I rather pitch’d upon the wrong note.