By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_57" id="page_57"></SPAN>{57}</span></p> <h2><SPAN name="THE_WORD_OF_THE_WATER" id="THE_WORD_OF_THE_WATER"></SPAN>THE WORD OF THE WATER<br/><br/> <small><i>For the Unveiling of the Stevenson Fountain in San Francisco</i></small></h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="smcap">God</span> made me simple from the first,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And good to quench your body’s thirst.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Think you he has no ministers<br/></span> <span class="i0">To glad that wayworn soul of yours?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Here by the thronging Golden Gate<br/></span> <span class="i0">For thousands and for you I wait,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Seeing adventurous sails unfurled<br/></span> <span class="i0">For the four corners of the world.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_58" id="page_58"></SPAN>{58}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Here passed one day, nor came again,<br/></span> <span class="i0">A prince among the tribes of men.<br/></span> <span class="i0">(For man, like me, is from his birth<br/></span> <span class="i0">A vagabond upon this earth.)<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Be thankful, friend, as you pass on,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And pray for Louis Stevenson,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That by whatever trail he fare<br/></span> <span class="i0">He be refreshed in God’s great care!<br/></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />