The sweetest refuge any soul can know!

Where all complaining stills its idle voice,

And trembling joy bids sorrow soft rejoice

Finding the living wand, whose staff below

The living waters lie like mountain spring

Defiled not in its source, whose shining face

Gives to e’en homely herbs a resting-place,

With heaven’s blue for their bright shadowing.

Pure, living source! wherein who drinks shall thirst

Not any more. Blest cup of Love Divine!