What is it about?

Picture courtesy of Alistair Harper

The poem describes a stream in the Highlands of Scotland. In the first stanzastanza: A group of lines of poetry that make up a unit - like a paragraph in a piece of prose; a verse. we see the brown stream falling over a waterfall to the lake below; the second describes the froth blown above the water in a pool; and the third the landscape which the stream passes through. The poem ends as the poet wonders what would become of the world without such wet and wild landscapes, and pleads for them to be retained.

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