# The Brook

- Music: Ellen Dickson (died 1878)
- Words: Alfred Tennyson, Lord (died 1892)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6600532

## The words

With many a curve my banks I fret By many a  
field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland  
set With willow, weed, and mallow:  
I slip, I slide, I gleam, I glance,  
Among my skimming swallows, I make the netted  
sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows,  
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the  
brimming river, For men may come and men may  
go, But I go on for ever, ever,  
I go on for ever, ever, I go on for ever.  
I wind about, and in and out With here a  
blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty  
trout, And here and there a grayling,  
And here and there a snowy flake Upon me as I  
travel, With many a silvery waterbreak  
Above the golden gravel, And draw them all  
along, I flow To join the brimming river,  
For men may come and men may go, But I go on for  
ever, ever, I go on for ever, ever,  
I go on for ever.  
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,  
I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet  
forgetmenots, That grow for happy lovers.  
I murmur under moon and stars In brambly  
wildernesses 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 for  
ever, ever, I go on for ever, ever,  
I go on for ever.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).