Father of all! Thou dost not hide Thy bond As one that would disclaim it - on the cloud, Or springing fount, or torrent's misty shroud, Lord of the waters! are thy tokens found; Thy promise lives about the ambient air, And, ever ready at a moment's call, Reports itself, in colours fresh and fair; And, where St Lawrence rushes to his fall In thunder, Thou dost tend his angry breath, Infusing it with rainbows: - one and all The floods of this green earth attest Thy faith, The rain, the fountain, and the watery wall - And, badged with sweet remembrancers, they say, 'My word, once given, shall never pass away.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DIPPOLD THE OPTICIAN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS AN EXPOSTULATION by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE THE ERL-KING by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A TERRIBLE INFANT by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON QUATRAIN: HERRICK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AH, BIND MY HANDS by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 106. THE SUBLIME: 1 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |