Poetry: The Waters Of Life

Spring up, Owell! sweet fouittain, spring, And fructify the desert sand. Sing, yc that drink; the waters sing, They dance along the smiling land, Wilh flowers ndorn, with verdure dress, The waste aad howling wilderness. IIo! cvery one tint thirsts. draw nigh, Fiiinting wilh sicluiess, worn wilh toil, Let riim ihai hth no moncy buy, Buy niilk nnd Iioney: wine and oil, Thosc fuurfold streamsof Faradise. Pricelc-ss, because above all price. In every form the waters run, Ti.il], Ver, tonent, lake, and soa; Tlnotigh evcry climc benenth the sun. Free as the nir, as dnylight irec. Till earth's whole face the flood o'erswcep, As ocean's tides the channeled deep. As moved, with rnighty winga outspread, God's spirit o'er the foimlesa void, So bc that Spirit's nfluence shcd To newcreaíe a world destroyed, Till all that cüed through Adam's fall, Revive in Christ, who died for all.