And in this act they reel the clift;
Another moment life is rift! * * *
The ruffled waters are at peace again.
What could, methinks, have caused such dread of life:
Was it forbidden them to woo?—
And thus despairingly they grew,
Till, mutually agreed, they swept
The craggy brink, and overlept:
So, with the world, they finished all their strife.
Think of the sudden splashing of the stream,