Mountain Spring and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="GONE" id="GONE" />GONE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>Upon time's surging, billowy sea<br/></span> <span>A ship now slowly disappears,<br/></span> <span>With freight no human eye can see,<br/></span> <span>But weighing just one hundred years.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Their sighs, their tears, their weary moans,<br/></span> <span>Their joy and pleasure, pomp and pride,<br/></span> <span>Their angry and their gentle tones,<br/></span> <span>Beneath its waves forever hide.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Yes, sunk within oblivion's waves,<br/></span> <span>They'll partly live in memory;<br/></span> <span>To youth, who will their secrets crave,<br/></span> <span>Mostly exist in history.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Ah, what a truth steps in this strain&mdash;<br/></span> <span>They are not lost within time's sea;<br/></span> <span>Their words and actions live again,<br/></span> <span>And blight or light eternity!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>A new ship comes within our view,<br/></span> <span>Laden with dreams both sad and blest;<br/></span> <span>To youth they're tinged with roseate hue;<br/></span> <span>To weary ones bring longed-for rest.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>And still the stream of life flows on,<br/></span> <span>Laughing beneath the century new.<br/></span> <span>God's promise gilds the horizon;<br/></span> <span>Mercy shall reign; his word is true.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />