| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 794. Brook Song |
| | | By James Herbert Morse |
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| BROOK, would thou couldst flow | |
| With a music all thine own— | |
| Thy babble of music alone— | |
| Not a word of the Long Ago | |
| In thy brawling down below, | 5 |
| Not a sigh of the wind by thee, | |
| The wind in the willow tree! | |
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| Or, Brook, if thou couldst go, | |
| As once, in the prime of May, | |
| For a whole long holiday, | 10 |
| When the cowslips down below, | |
| And the violets watched thy flow, | |
| With the babble of two by thee, | |
| And the wind in the willow tree! | |
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| O Brook, if thou couldst so | 15 |
| Make a living music, and sing | |
| Of a faded, bygone spring, | |
| And down by the violets flow | |
| With that babble of Long Ago,— | |
| I would listen forever to thee | 20 |
| And the wind in the willow tree. | |
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