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THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS

First Line: THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE IS
Last Line: UPON THE ROCKS BELOW.
Subject(s): DEATH; WATER; WATERFALLS; DEAD, THE;
The course of least resistance is
Where placid waters flow
Until they reach the rapids and
The cataract below;
'Tis floating with the current when
You do not choose to row,
And ever moving down the stream
And swifter as you go.

Heedless of voices heard within
With pleadings soft and low,
Unheard, unfelt, the distant roar,
And mists the breezes blow;
Heedless of voices from the shore,
Still you must surely know
That Death waits where the waters foam
Upon the rocks below.



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