Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Roslin | | At the Linn-Side, Roslin | | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
| | | 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 e’er affrays; | 10 |
| And as it pours from rock to rock | |
| Nothing e’er 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 fresh’ning, 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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