Don't stop me to idle or dally,
My life-work is ever to flow;
The meadow, the mill-wheel and valley,
Are waiting to greet me below.
My life-work is ever to flow;
The meadow, the mill-wheel and valley,
Are waiting to greet me below.
I pause not in lakelet or river,
I rest not in woodland or lea,
Still onward and onward forever
I flow to the boundless blue sea.
I rest not in woodland or lea,
Still onward and onward forever
I flow to the boundless blue sea.
INFINITY
I took swift wings, that knew no time no space,
And fled unto the utmost star that shines,—
E'en to the end of things, that man divines,
Yet cannot see, then turned my eager face
To view the sight—to find some resting place
For human faith—a revelation grand;
But saw the countless stars on every hand
That lit great planets in their endless race.
And fled unto the utmost star that shines,—
E'en to the end of things, that man divines,
Yet cannot see, then turned my eager face
To view the sight—to find some resting place
For human faith—a revelation grand;
But saw the countless stars on every hand
That lit great planets in their endless race.
Again I sought a star remote and dim
That flickered on the far horizon's rim,
But saw the same deep, star-bespangled blue;
Yet once again I fled for countless years
Through endless deserts of unnumbered spheres,
But with each hour the stellar pageant grew.
That flickered on the far horizon's rim,
But saw the same deep, star-bespangled blue;
Yet once again I fled for countless years
Through endless deserts of unnumbered spheres,
But with each hour the stellar pageant grew.
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