| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | The Waterfall | | By John Keble (1792–1866) |
| | | 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| Even so the mighty sky-born stream:— | |
| Its living waters from above | |
| All marred and broken seem, | |
| No union and no love. | 20 |
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| Yet in dim caves they haply blend, | |
| In dreams of mortals unespied; | |
| One is their awful End, | |
| One their unfailing Guide. | | | | |
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