Crystal clear from the throne of God Flows The River, The Shining River, For ever full, for ever free, It floweth everlastingly Through the banks of Time to the Boundless Sea Of Love indwelling Eternity. Praise to God in running water, Gleaming, glancing, running water! Crystal clear its joyous cheer, Dreaming, dancing, running water; Amber-bright all slashed with white, Sweet, romancing, running water; Give God praise for all fair water! His sweet grace is running water. God's sweet grace is running water, All fair, sparkling, running water, Bubbling spring from rock or sod, -- Goodly thing, -- the gift of God, -- Babbling praises as it flows, Gathering graces as it grows, Scattering joys where'er it goes; -- Praise to God in running water! Blithely o'er its shallows purling, Lithely through its narrows swirling, Round its mossy boulders curling, Glooming, gleaming, spooming, creaming With new life so richly teeming For the thirsty earth's redeeming; -- Give God praise for running water, For all fair, fresh, running water! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THRENODY FOR A BROWN GIRL by COUNTEE CULLEN A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE LOST WAR-SLOOP by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR ON IMAGINATION by PHILLIS WHEATLEY PIPPA PASSES by ROBERT BROWNING SORDELLO: BOOK 4 by ROBERT BROWNING WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL AT THE FALL OF FYERS by ROBERT BURNS ODE TO MISS HOYLAND: MISS HOYLAND IS COY by THOMAS CHATTERTON |