Since sun-rise at creation;
And this waterfall been underminin'
With constant spatteration.
"That Moses never mention'd ye--I've wonder'd,
While other things describin';
My conscience!--how ye must have foam'd and thunder'd
When the deluge was subsidin'!
"My thoughts are strange, magnificent, and deep,
When I look down on thee;--
Oh, what a glorious place for washing sheep