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<div class="lesson">LESSON XXIII.</div>
<div class="chaphead">THE RIVER.</div>
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<td align="left"><p>"Oh, tell me, pretty river,<br/>
Whence do thy waters flow?<br/>
And whither art thou roaming,<br/>
So smoothly and so slow?"</p>
<p>"My birthplace was the mountain,<br/>
My nurse the April showers;<br/>
My cradle was a fountain,<br/>
O'er-curtained by wild flowers.</p>
<p>"One morn I ran away,<br/>
A madcap, noisy rill;<br/>
And many a prank that day<br/>
I played adown the hill!</p>
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<td align="left"><p>"And then 'mid meadowy banks,<br/>
I flirted with the flowers,<br/>
That stooped with glowing lips<br/>
To woo me to their bowers.</p>
<p>"But these bright scenes are o'er,<br/>
And darkly flows my wave;<br/>
I hear the ocean's roar--<br/>
And there must be my grave!"</p>
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<p>Where have you seen a river like the one spoken of in the poem? Are
rivers born? What is meant by "My nurse the April showers"? "I
flirted with the flowers"? Explain the last stanza.</p>
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