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Stop! Stop! Pretty Water

I.
"Stop! stop! pretty water,"
Said Mary one day,
To a frolicsome brook
That was running away.

II.
"You run on so fast!
I wish you would stay;
My boat and my flowers
You will carry away.

III.
"But I will run after;
Mother says that I may;
For I would know where
You are running away."

IV.
So Mary ran on;
But I have heard say
That she never could find
Where the brook ran away.

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  • November 11, 2005
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    I had memorized this poem, "Stop, Stop! Pretty Water," when I was a child. I can remember parts of it. What fun to be able to read the entire poem and perhaps I will commit it to memory again if my "older" brain will cooperate.