Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | IV. Sabbath: Worship: Creed | | Living Waters | | Caroline S. Spencer |
| | | THERE are some hearts like wells, green-mossed and deep | |
| As ever Summer saw; | |
| And cool their water is,—yea, cool and sweet;— | |
| But you must come to draw. | |
| They hoard not, yet they rest in calm content, | 5 |
| And not unsought will give; | |
| They can be quiet with their wealth unspent, | |
| So self-contained they live. | |
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| And there are some like springs, that bubbling burst | |
| To follow dusty ways, | 10 |
| And run with offered cup to quench his thirst | |
| Where the tired traveller strays; | |
| That never ask the meadows if they want | |
| What is their joy to give;— | |
| Unasked, their lives to other life they grant, | 15 |
| So self-bestowed they live! | |
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| And One is like the ocean, deep and wide, | |
| Wherein all waters fall; | |
| That girdles the broad earth, and draws the tide, | |
| Feeding and bearing all; | 20 |
| That broods the mists, that sends the clouds abroad, | |
| That takes, again to give;— | |
| Even the great and loving heart of God, | |
| Whereby all love doth live. | | | | |
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