The Stream of Life
Arthur Hugh Clough
1819 to 1861
Track 1
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And houses stand on either hand,
In garden plots the children play,
And be above us still.
Companions young and old.
Inevitable sea,
O end to which our currents tend,
The leafy trees are green.
As we our course fulfil;
Parent and friend thy lapse attend,
To which we flow, what do we know,
O life descending into death,
The flow'rets blow, the grasses grow,
Our hearts affections fill,
Scarce we divine a sun will shine
Strong purposes our mind possess,
And thou descendest still.
Our waking eyes behold,
What shall we guess of thee?
A roar we hear upon thy shore,
And thou descendest still.
O stream descending to the sea,
Thy mossy banks between,
The fields the labourers till,
We toil and earn, we seek and learn,
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