“The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,

While I look upward to thee. It would seem

As if God poured thee from his ‘hollow hand,’

And hung his bow upon thine awful front;

And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him

Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour’s sake,

‘The sound of many waters;’ and had bade

Thy flood to chronicle the ages back,

And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks!

“Deep calleth unto deep, and what are we,