In this scene preserv’st me dread!
Thou, without whose word decreeing
Not a hair falls from my head!
Thou in life hast doubly blest me,
All my soul to Thee’s revealed,—
Thou amongst the great hast placed me,—
Be ’midst them my guide and shield!
—From W. D. Lewis’s The Bakchesarian Fountain.
THE STREAM OF TIME[165]
The stream of time, with onward sweep,