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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.
A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.
Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the read more
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
'Tis rushing now adown the spout,
And gushing out below,
Half frantic in its joyousness,
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'Tis rushing now adown the spout,
And gushing out below,
Half frantic in its joyousness,
And wild in eager flow.
The earth is dried and parched with heat,
And it hath long'd to be
Released from out the selfish cloud,
To cool the thirsty tree.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; read more
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any
person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him.
