The course of least resistance is Where placid waters flow Until they reach the rapids and The cataract below; 'Tis floating with the current when You do not choose to row, And ever moving down the stream And swifter as you go. Heedless of voices heard within With pleadings soft and low, Unheard, unfelt, the distant roar, And mists the breezes blow; Heedless of voices from the shore, Still you must surely know That Death waits where the waters foam Upon the rocks below. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM [ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE HUMAN LIFE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE ONCE BEFORE by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD by THOMAS HARDY THREE KINGS OF ORIENT by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR. GRENADIER by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST by EMILY LAWLESS |