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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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Song of a Blue Mountain Stream

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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 
Apr 05, 2010
 Song of a Blue Mountain Stream by Reginald Murray
by: Shirley Baker

The entry dated 07 Feb 2010 is pretty near the version I have. I am a Jamaican and we learnt the poem in school because we feel it was about our blue mountain!
Apr 15, 2010
 Paving The way To The Blue Mountain Stream
by: Joan S.

Well hello there to everyone who showed interest and remained interested in this poem.

This means so much to me that I feel like hugging everyone, especially the person who finally found this poem.

Dear friends, My interest goes way back to my childhood days when I lived in the Parish of Portland, Cascade District.

Our family home was situated on a hill nestled in a bit of plain land.but the rest of the property was hilly all around as far as the eyes could see.

The house was faced towards the Blue Mountains and we had the full view of the highest peak amongst them. I am just picturing the sights!!!

Well, I was taught that poem and we had to recite this whenever asked to do so, by teachers and parents.

Now, I had a very active imagination, and used to visualize the "stream" flowing in the manner as depicted in the poem.realizing, that that somewhere, that stream becomes a river, then from the river eventually flow to the sea. BEAUTIFUL!!I could go on and on.

However, thanks a million. (smile) Joan
Apr 22, 2010
 Song of The Blue Mountain Stream
by: Rudolph

Today April 21 2010 marks the joyous end to a very long search for this wonderful poem. It was by accident. I did not know that anyone else was looking for it.

I also did this poem in elementary school 2000 feet up the Blue Mountains in the hills of St. Andrew - Mavis Bank.

Thanks to that kind person who posted it .
I must go read my poem now. Bye.
Ruddy
May 27, 2010
 The song of the blue mountain stream.
by: Anonymous

Thanks to you guys I have been searching for this poem for years. I learn it when i was in fourth grade at Derry primary school in st Mary over 40 yrs ago.

I was just asking a friend if he knows it, he recommended that I Google search it. My heart fill with Joy when I saw it, bring me back to the class room when we have to recite it with all the expression.

thanks again.

Ireta Johnson.
Jul 08, 2010
 Bless you all
by: Marcia - Kgn. Jamaica

Friends I thought I was the only persons trying to find the words to this poem. It has been haunting me for more than 20 years. I will never lose the words again. Thanks and blessings.

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