Oliver Wendell Holmes (Оливер Уэнделл Холмс)

The Two Streams

Behold the rocky wall
That down its sloping sides
Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall,
In rushing river-tides!

Yon stream, whose sources run
Turned by a pebble’s edge,
Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun
Through the cleft mountain-ledge.

The slender rill had strayed,
But for the slanting stone,
To evening’s ocean, with the tangled braid
Of foam-flecked Oregon.

So from the heights of Will
Life’s parting stream descends,
And, as a moment turns its slender rill,
Each widening torrent bends,—

From the same cradle’s side,
From the same mother’s knee,—
One to long darkness and the frozen tide,
One to the Peaceful Sea!

1. The Moral Bully
2. The Cambridge Churchyard
3. Verses for After-Dinner Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1844
4. Song (A HEALTH to dear woman! She bids us untwine)
5. A Sentiment (THE pledge of Friendship! it is still divine)

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