Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Scotland: Vols. VIVIII. 187679. | | Roslin | At the Linn-Side, Roslin | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (18261887) |
| O LIVING, living water, | |
So busy and so bright, | |
Aye flashing in the morning beams, | |
And sounding through the night; | |
O, golden-shining water, | 5 |
Would God that I might be | |
A vocal message from his mouth | |
Into the world, like thee! | |
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O merry, merry water, | |
Which nothing eer affrays; | 10 |
And as it pours from rock to rock | |
Nothing eer stops or stays; | |
But past cool heathery hollows | |
And gloomy pools it flows; | |
Past crags that fain would shut it in | 15 |
Leaps through,and on it goes. | |
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O freshning, sparkling water, | |
O voice that s never still, | |
Though winter lays her dead-white hand | |
On brae and glen and hill; | 20 |
Though no leaf s left to flutter | |
In woods all mute and hoar, | |
Yet thou, O river, night and day | |
Thou runnest evermore. | |
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No foul thing can pollute thee; | 25 |
Thy swiftness casts aside | |
All ill, like a good heart and true, | |
However sorely tried. | |
O living, living water, | |
So fresh and bright and free, | 30 |
God lead us through this changeful world | |
Forever pure, like thee! | | | |
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