IV + 

Drawing Water + 

Dark, as if it would not tell, + 

Lies the water, still and cool: + 

Dip the bucket in the well, + 

Lift it from the precious pool! + 

Up it comes all brown and dim, + 

Telling of the twilight sweet: + 

As it rises to the brim + 

See the sun and water meet! + 

See the friends each other hail! + 

“Here you are!” cries Master Sun; + 

Mistress Water from the pail + 

Flashes back, alive with fun! + 

Have you not a tale to tell, + 

Water, as I take you home? + 

Tell me of the hidden well + 

Whence you, first of all, did come. + 

Of it you have kept some flavour + 

Through long paths of darkling strife: + 

Water all has still a savour + 

Of the primal well of life! + 

Could you show the lovely way + 

Back and up through sea and sky + 

To that well? Oh, happy day, + 

I would drink, and never die! + 

Jesus sits there on its brink + 

All the world’s great thirst to slake, + 

Offering every one to drink + 

Who will only come and take! + 

Lord of wells and waters all, + 

Lord of rains and dewy beads, + 

Unto thee my thirst doth call + 

For the thing thou know’st it needs! + 

Come home, water sweet and cool, + 

Gift of God thou always art! + 

Spring up, Well more beautiful, + 

Rise in mine straight from his heart. + 