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The Singing Maiden, with Other Stories and Rhymes,

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55

THE SONG OF WATER.

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This poem has been extracted from a passage of prose text.

Let others sing the praises,
Of the rosy, sparkling wine;
I sing a song of the water,
The bright and beautous water,
That comes from the hand Divine.

Chorus.—

Ho! every one that thirsteth,
List to the song I sing:
Drink water, only water,
The blessed, healing water,
The cool and gushing water,
Fresh from a living spring.
God spreads the bounteous water
O'er all the world so wide;
In waterfalls 'tis gushing,
From sea to sea 'tis rushing,
In a bounding, heaving tide.

Chorus.—

Ho! every one that thirsteth, &c.
'Tis water brings us gladness,
And health is in its flow;
But wine, like fire, is burning,
And from it there's no turning,
Till it has wrought us woe.

Chorus.—

Ho! every one that thirsteth, &c.