Stop, stop pretty water!Said Mary one dayTo a frolicsome brookThat was running away.You run on so fast!I wish you would stay;My boat and my flowersYou will carry away.But I will run after:Mother says that I may;For I would know whereYou are running way.So Mary ran on;But I have heard say,That she never could findWhere the brook ran away.

~ Eliza Lee Follen

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It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

~ Gwendoline Riley

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