“The river of God is full of water.”
-Psalm.
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The rushes are black by the river bed,
And the sheep and the cattle stand
Wistful-eyed,-where the waters were,-
In a waste of gravel and sand;
Or pass o’er their dying and dead to slake
Their thirst at the slimy pool.
Shall they pine and perish in pangs of drought
While Thy river, O God, is full.
The fields are furrowed, the seed is sown,
But no dews from the heavens are shed;
And where shall the grain for the harvest be-?
And how shall the poor be fed?
In waterless gullies they winnow the earth,
New-turned by the miner’s tool;
And the way-farer faints ‘neath his lightened load,
Yet the river of God is full.
For us, O Father, from tropic seas,
Let the clouds be filled that shed
Rough rains upon Andes’ eastward slope,-
Soft snows on Him
(Mary Hannay Foott)
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