THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, VOL. 8 (Completed)

ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM

Composed 1846.--Published 1850

Behold an emblem of our human mind

Crowded with thoughts that need a settled home

Yet, like to eddying balls of foam

Within this whirlpool, they each other chase

Round and round, and neither find

An outlet nor a resting-place!

Stranger, if such disquietude be thine,

Fall on thy knees and sue for help divine.