"I stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
"Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
"The waters know their own, and draw
The brooks that spring in yonder heights
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
"The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high.,
Can keep my own away from me."
Ralph Waldo Trine
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
"Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
"The waters know their own, and draw
The brooks that spring in yonder heights
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
"The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high.,
Can keep my own away from me."
Ralph Waldo Trine
