rest the creek, the brook the stream dear soldier, traveler, pilgrim, dear king stay and slow father mountain commands silver wisps of cloud strand stone crown
o father o father there is a dream I must go I must go I must be leaving his silent reproach communes and remands "my son, to me so you may gaze down upon"
"the earth, the mother sleeping tonight" imperiously meekly father gazes a fondness mother slumbers 'neath blanket down white and its here and its here in the earth it is here
the stone and the tree and the river decree the truth to the traveler the truth he must see the man who must remember the face of his father