Sweeps to eternity."
The lyric from which the following extracts are taken was written by Mr. A. S. Ridgely, of Baltimore, Md.:
"Man lays his scepter on the ocean waste,
His footprints stiffen in the Alpine snows,
But only God moves visibly in thee,
O King of Floods! that with resistless fate
Down plungest in thy mighty width and depth.
* * * Amazement, terror, fill,
Impress and overcome the gazer's soul.
Man's schemes and dreams and petty littleness