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"...Collecting, projecting, receding and speeding, and shocking and rocking, and darting and parting, and threading and spreading, and whizzing and hissing, and dripping and skipping, and hitting and splitting, and shining and twining, and rattling and battling, and shaking and quaking, and pouring and roaring, and waving and raving, and tossing and crossing, and flowing and going, and running and tunning, and foaming and roaming, and dinning and spinning, and dropping and hopping, and working and jerking, and juggling and struggling, and heaving and cleaving, and moaning and groaning; and glittering and frittering, and gathering and feathering, and whitening and brightning, and quivering and shivering, and hurrying and skurrying, and thundering and floundering; and thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, and dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; and so never ending, but always descending, sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending, all at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, and this way the Water comes down at Lodore." (item)Robert Southey: The Cataract of Lodore - Describe in Rhymes for the Nursery (1820)