Classic Poem

Ever sparkling, ever mounting,
In a jet of rainbow hue!
Here, in Light's o'erflowing fountain,
Souls are daily born anew.

Here, the Holy Ghost descending
Weds the waters of the earth,
With the stream of Life unending,
Which in Paradise had birth:

While in turn, the wave receiving
His prolific grace benign,
From th' eternal Source conceiving,
Bears an offspring all divine.

O, beneficence surprising! —
Merg'd a moment in the tide,
See the sinner thence arising
In a moment justified!

So to guilt divinely dying,
Man to Heav'n revives again;
And on earth no more relying,
Learns to count its glory vain.

So by this baptismal portal,
While our ancient Adam dies,
Forth we come to life immortal,
And a kingdom in the skies!

Honour, blessing, glory, merit,
To the Father and the Son;
With the sempiternal Spirit,
One in Trine, and Trinal One.