STOP, STOP, PRETTY WATER!
Reading edition
“Stop, stop, pretty water!” Said Mary one day, To a bright, happy brook That was running away. “You run on so fast! I wish you would stay; My boat and my flowers You will carry away. But I will run after: Mother says that I may; For I would know where You are running away.” So Mary ran on; But I have heard say, That she never could find Where the brook ran away. Eliza Lee Follen.