Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Keble (17921866)The Waterfall
MARK how, a thousand streams in one, | |
One in a thousand, on they fare; | |
Now flashing to the sun, | |
Now still as beast in lair. | |
Now round the rock, now mounting o’er, | 5 |
In lawless dance they win their way; | |
Still seeming more and more | |
To swell as we survey. | |
They win their way, and find their rest | |
Together in their ocean home; | 10 |
From East and weary West, | |
From North and South they come. | |
They rush and roar, they whirl and leap, | |
Not wilder drives the wintry storm; | |
Yet a strong law they keep, | 15 |
Strange powers their course inform. | |
Even so the mighty sky-born stream:— | |
Its living waters from above | |
All marred and broken seem, | |
No union and no love. | 20 |
Yet in dim caves they haply blend, | |
In dreams of mortals unespied; | |
One is their awful End, | |
One their unfailing Guide. | |