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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: friendly accompaniment, and human intercourse is purified and
sweetened by the flowing, murmuring water. It is by a river that I
would choose to make love, and to revive old friendships, and to
play with the children, and to confess my faults, and to escape
from vain, selfish desires, and to cleanse my mind from all the
false and foolish things that mar the joy and peace of living.
Like David's hart, I pant for the water-brooks. There is wisdom in
the advice of Seneca, who says, "Where a spring rises, or a river
flows, there should we build altars and offer sacrifices."
The personality of a river is not to be found in its water, nor in
its bed, nor in its shore. Either of these elements, by itself,
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