The Stream of Life
Arthur Hugh Clough
1819 to 1861
Track 1
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Companions young and old.
Parent and friend thy lapse attend,
In garden plots the children play,
To which we flow, what do we know,
And houses stand on either hand,
Our hearts affections fill,
We toil and earn, we seek and learn,
Thy mossy banks between,
A roar we hear upon thy shore,
The leafy trees are green.
What shall we guess of thee?
The flow'rets blow, the grasses grow,
Scarce we divine a sun will shine
Strong purposes our mind possess,
The fields the labourers till,
Inevitable sea,
And be above us still.
And thou descendest still.
As we our course fulfil;
Our waking eyes behold,
O life descending into death,
O end to which our currents tend,
And thou descendest still.
O stream descending to the sea,
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