Pleasant Water Author:James Davis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: For every helpful ministry That goeth forth at Love's behest, Returns full laden, like the bee, With gathered sweetness to the breast; And wisely 't is the... more » Heavenly will That eyes serene should ever trace Our inward state of good or ill By lights and shadows on the face. Must now unwilling Fancy leave Her pleasing pictures for the task, The short, sad tale of woe to weave For the impatient eyes that ask What fate that bark may overtake? Or on her light wings, spread for flight, Her long delayed excursion make To other scenes of dear delight? Be rough wave smooth and tempest still, Nor cloud obscure the Sun's bright sheen, While from the top of Sunset Hill We landward look upon the scene That lies outspread in loveliness, Where shore and sea, in sweet embrace, Dual completeness well express, In perfect charm of wedded grace. As if some mighty hand outspread, And laid upon this yielding shore, Had formed the forked river-bed, With wide distended fingers four, Disparting here the waters flow Divergent, filling four fair coves, Till grassy nooks and runnels know The soft caresses of their loves. 'T is now the spring-tide, when the Moon And Sun their flying coursers join, And riding high, an hour past noon, Their strong attractive powers combine To woo the waiting Earth, whose breast, Responsive to her lovers twain, Swells high, the witching power confessed, And a full flood fills every vein. Six hours the swift, incoming tide Has through the narrow channels swept, Spreading o'er flats and marshes wide, And up the shelving shores has crept, O'erflowing meadows 'mid the hills Unwonted to its soft embrace, Hasting to meet the laughing rills At many a new-found trysting place : Till reaching now ...« less