Ever-flowing, always-changing,
Any place that life is ranging,
With itself all times exchanging,
Substance of ablution
Peace within its endless sounding,
Surface calm, but life abounding,
Raised within it at our founding,
Primitive solution
Interacting elemental,
Often rather temperamental,
Violent crash or wavelet gentle,
Going, always going —
Water is as ice and vapor,
Serving as the strong earth’s shaper,
And her elegant blue draper,
Fitting her for showing
Setting off her
Glowing
