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Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Two Streams
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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!
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