brooklet

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Not a brooklet floweth Onward to the sea, Not a sunbeam gloweth On its bosom free, Not a seed unfoldeth To the glorious air, But our Father holdeth It within his care.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

Was it a twig snapping, or the rush of the brooklet beyond? or the clear first notes of an awakening bird?

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

The lilies are fair, down by the green grove, Where the brooklet glides through the dell; But I view not a lily so fair, while I rove, As the maid whose name I could tell.

From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Cooper, Thomas

Clear was the heaven and blue, and May, with her cap crowned with roses, Stood in her holiday dress in the fields, and the wind and the brooklet Murmured gladness and peace, God's-peace!

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth