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Poems MacCarthy, Florence Denis

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216<br />

Save the dying fields from death;<br />

Let the swiftness of thy currents<br />

Bear to man the freight-fill'd ship,<br />

And the crystal of thy torrents<br />

Bring refreshment to his lip.<br />

And when thou, O rapid river,<br />

Thy eternal home dost seek,<br />

When no more the willows quiver<br />

But to touch thy passing cheek,<br />

When the groves no longer greet thee<br />

And the shore no longer kiss,<br />

Let infinitude come meet thee<br />

On the verge of the abyss.<br />

Other voices seek to win us--<br />

Low, suggestive, like the rest--<br />

But the sweetest is within us<br />

In the stillness of the breast;<br />

Be it ours, with fond desiring,<br />

The same harvest to produce,<br />

As the cloud in its aspiring<br />

And the river in its use.

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