Father of all! Thou dost not hide Thy bond As one that would disclaim it - on the cloud, Or springing fount, or torrent's misty shroud, Lord of the waters! are thy tokens found; Thy promise lives about the ambient air, And, ever ready at a moment's call, Reports itself, in colours fresh and fair; And, where St Lawrence rushes to his fall In thunder, Thou dost tend his angry breath, Infusing it with rainbows: - one and all The floods of this green earth attest Thy faith, The rain, the fountain, and the watery wall - And, badged with sweet remembrancers, they say, 'My word, once given, shall never pass away.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 3. BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE by THOMAS HARDY SONNET: 45 by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY ZION, OR THE CITY OF GOD by JOHN NEWTON SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE by APHRA BEHN THE PRINCESS by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON FEMININE TALK by MAXWELL BODENHEIM |