THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung his bow upon thine awful front, And spoke in that loud voice which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake The sound of many waters; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch his centuries in the etenal rocks. Deep calleth unto deep. And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? -- a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY by HENRY BATAILLE THE ASSUMPTION by JOHN BEAUMONT PRINCE ARTHUR: THE CRYSTAL PALACES by RICHARD BLACKMORE TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS by GORDON BOTTOMLEY PINE MUSIC by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN |