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Song of a Blue Mountain Stream

by Veron
(Canada)

Question:
Hello,

I would like to get the word of the poem by Reginald M Murray, "Song of a Blue Mountain Stream" .

I would love to teach it to my 10 year old who is interested in poetry.

Thanks, veron

Answer: Dec.21.08 by W.Gayle

Hi Veron,

I've done some research but can't seem to find anything. I am hopeful that someone from Jamaica who knows the words will share them with us by posting their answer below.

I find my site visitors are very helpful in this regard.

Stay in touch!

Regards,
Wellesley

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Feb 07, 2009

Song of a Blue Mountain Stream
by: Joel D'Hue

I do not know the whole poem but I do remember some of it. Here goes:

In a cleft remote where white mists float
Around Blue Mountain's peak
I rise unseen beneath a screen
Of fog clouds dank and bleak.

I trickle I flow to the hills below
And vales that lie far under.
From bablings low I louder grow
I shout I roar I thunder

Through fern arched dells where
Fairy bells and violets scent the air
While calls above the soft blue dove
And lone voiced solitaire.

(This is where I get lost but I do remember one more verse)

Then last I pour with deafening roar
Over a mighty crag.
And the echoes ring as I headlong fling
The trees I downward drag.

I have been trying to find the words myself so if you get lucky and find someone who knows the whole poem I'd like a copy of it. Thanks

Mar 28, 2009

Try Australian Poet - Henry Kendall
by: Tim

I believe the words you're looking for are written by an Australian poet from the 1800's - Try searching for or googling information on Australian Poet - Henry Kendall.

Hope it helps.

Tim

Nov 14, 2009

Poem in a book called "Ramblings"
by: Anonymous

The Cornell university library has a copy of a book called "Ramblings", written by Reginald Myrie Murray. It is a collection of his poems.

You can find "The Song of a Mountain Stream" and others at the following website: http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924013245158#page/n13/mode/2up.

Jan 28, 2010

song of the blue mountain stream
by: claudette

you can log in under
reginald myrie murray or under the name of this book
RAMBLING OR www.archive.org/stream.

good luck. you may respond to my email....
caneita.stewart126@gmail.com

Feb 02, 2010

The song of a Mountain Stream
by: Anonymous

Thank you so very much. I, myself, have been searching for this poem for the longest while. It is so very, very beautiful.

Feb 07, 2010

THE SONG OF THE BLUE MOUNTAIN STREAM
by: Pam Dennett

I seem to remember this from The Song of the Blue Mountain Stream:

I trickle and flow to the bills below and vales that lie far under Through babbling brook and something something,
I murmer and meander, etc. etc.

I do hope someone would give us the whole poem. I think it was either in the Royal Reader or the West Indian Reader that I read these poems along with others such "Mary go and call the cattle home", There was a ship of Rio sailed out into the blue" and many others. This is going back 52 years ago. What wonderful books they were. Does anyone still have the books? Pam

Feb 07, 2010

Someone put up the link to the Cornel Library but did not leave his/her name
by: Joel D'Hue

Here is the Poem:

The Song Of A Mountain Stream

In a cleft remote
Where white mists float
Around Blue Mountain?s Peak,
I rise unseen
Beneath a screen
Of fog-clouds dark and bleak
I trickle, I flow
To the hills below
And vales that lie far under,
From babblings low
I louder grow,
I shout, I roar, I thunder.

I fall with a rush
In the morning hush
While the mountain seeping lies,
There swift I sweep,
Here slow I creep,
Till the sound of my motion dies;
Oh! I rejoice
In the night wind?s voice
As soft it kisses my stream,
And dance and glimmer
And glance and shimmer
Where moon-lit reaches gleam.

With ice-cold wave
I gently lave
The flowers as I wander,
I gloom and glide
?Neath Mountain Pride,
I murmur and meander
Thru? fern-arched dells
Where fairy-bells
And violets scent the air
While calls above
The doleful dove
And lone voiced solitaire.

And here I crash
With silver flash
Over a mighty crag,
And the echoes ring
As I headlong fling
The trees I downward drag;
Till last I pour
With deafening roar,
A highwood stream no longer,
O?er plains below
And seawards flow
A river broad and stronger .

By Reginald M Murray

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