There paused our Father, ravished with the sound

Of the wild waters, and their rapid flow,

And there, alone, rejoiced that he had found

Thy Falls, Pawtucket, and where Seekonk wound.

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And as he dallied on its margin still,

His restless thought did on the future pause:

Here might his children drive the busy mill,

Here whirl the stones, here clash the riving saws;

But little did he think the torrent’s will