Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LORD, WE ARE RIVERS RUNNING TO THY SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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Last Line: Sweetness to thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Rivers; Worship; God


Lord, we are rivers running to Thy sea,
Our waves and ripples all derived from Thee:
A nothing we should have, a nothing be.
Except for Thee.

Sweet are the waters of Thy shoreless sea.
Make sweet our waters that make haste to Thee;
Pour in Thy sweetness, that ourselves may be
Sweetness to Thee.





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