Music — Poetry — Fiction 



Sheets of sunfire blaze and quiver 1898 



On thy waves, O boistrous river, 

 As they leap to foam and shiver, 



Adown this gulf of death! 



Deep undercurrents night and day, 

 An everlasting power display, 

 Exhaustless, unconfined, they play, 

 Unfathomed, unrestrained. 



Take in the sight around — about, 

 And know, Vain Man! beyond a doubt, 

 God's power is here past finding out — 

 Eternal mystery. 



Oft have I sat, in quiet hour, 

 Beside this emblem of God's power, 

 And fancied Eden's sacred bower 

 No symbol had like this. 



Emotionful our souls should know 

 He placed that graceful radiant bow 

 To span the hurricane below, 



In token of His love. 



Thou Sacrilegious Man — go hence ! 

 How futile is thy vain pretence 

 To scoff and doubt Omnipotence, 

 Arrayed in glory here! 



Ere Cheop's Pyramidal pile 

 Stood reared upon the classic Nile, 

 Was cut thy rough, rock-ribbed defile 

 By ante-glacial flood! 



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