PLATTEKLIP CASCADE.

Where th’ Olympian cloth is spread, There thou’rt cradled, nursed, and bred; Bursting into life anew, Thirsting for celestial dew; Drinking from th’ ambrosial fountain, Sinking through the veinèd mountain; Moving; Roving; Gravitating; Sliding; Gliding; Percolating; Coursing on through channels hidden, Forcing passages unbidden; Winding into cave and cell, Finding out where Naiads dwell; Spirting out through crack and chink, Flirting on each flower-clad brink; Creeping over banks and bosses, Weeping with the moist-eyed mosses; Straying on midst foliage fair, Playing with sweet maiden hair; Rippling through enchanted grots; Tippling with forget-me-nots, Swelling into pools translucent, Welling over, wild, recusant! Dashing; Flushing; Splashing; Gushing; Whirling; Eddying; Swirling; Rushing; Spreading out upon the plain, Threading on thy course again; Flowing brook-like through the wood, Growing to a larger flood; Fertilising, fructifying, Man’s and Nature’s needs supplying; Gliding down time’s silent river; To the ocean of For Ever. B.