Mountain Spring and Other Poems

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1><i>The Mountain Spring and Other Poems</i></h1> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>NANNIE R. GLASS</h2> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="THE_MOUNTAIN_SPRING" id="THE_MOUNTAIN_SPRING" />THE MOUNTAIN SPRING</h2> <p><i>And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.</i>&mdash;Revelation 22:17.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>I wandered down a mountain road,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Past flower and rock and lichen gray,<br/></span> <span>Alone with nature and her God<br/></span> <span class="i2">Upon a flitting summer day.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>The forest skirted to the edge<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of Capon river, Hampshire's gem,<br/></span> <span>Which, bathing many a primrose ledge,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Oft sparkled like a diadem.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>At length a silvery spring I spied,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Gurgling through moss and fern along,<br/></span> <span>Waiting to bless with cooling tide<br/></span> <span class="i2">All who were gladdened by its song.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Oh, who would pass with thirsting lip<br/></span> <span class="i2">And burning brow, this limpid wave?<br/></span> <span>Who would not pause with joy and sip?<br/></span> <span class="i2">Its crystal depths who would not crave?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>This query woke a voice within&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Why slight the spring of God's great love,<br/></span> <span>That fount that cleanseth from all sin,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Our purchase paid by Christ above?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Whoever will may drink! Oh, why,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Worn toilers in this earthly strife,<br/></span> <span>Reject a mansion in the sky,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Reject heaven's bliss and endless life?<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />