still, still water
- As he led me by the still, still water.
But now ₁
I am a dwarf still. Still water’d, still blessed and succeeded; and yet still unthankful, still unfruitful, still unhumbled. ₂ - straightaway, still water
2 turns, still water ₃ - Outside, rough tumultuous waters, all noise, confusion.
Inside here, our hearts, like still still water, were at peace ₄
I remember especially one reach of still, still, water with slim young trees growing close to it, and in among the sedges, an alert red deer, so motion-less ₅ - straightaway, with current
3 turns, still water - Still Still / Water cooling / Drain / Cooling spray / Asphaltum cooler /
Steam to heating coil / Steam to stills ₆
in still still water, random wandering
wandering, against current, none, or swept downstream ₇ - straightaway
5 turns, still water - how it turned off from the creek and then made its way through the meadow and to the wheel. It was deep, yes, and so very still. Still water, but back of it was power to turn the mill ₈
solar still, still water ₉ - straightaway, with tide
with current - and standing still. Still water
the moving finger writes still, ₁₀
still water’s flow; yet there I see
somewhere a sprout is dormant; one clean page waits ₁₁ - with tide,
serpentine - not in tristeza but for the still, still water ₁₂
the water. The still, still water and its remarkable transparency produced effects which were quite uncanny ₁₃ - with tide, with current still,
- still water, a game of it, and tides, of course, turn ₁₄
sources
black bar ╹ at left margin returns page to top.
- ex The Hebrew’s Daughter, a fragment of A Jewish Tradition, in five cantos, by W. Henry Ludlow. (Leicester and London, 1854) : 41
Bodleian copy/scan (via google books) : link same, catalog entry and access to above : permalinkCanto Third. The Lament.
I.
“Oh! once there was a happy time,
When I, a young, obedient daughter
My father spoke of love sublime,
As he led me by the still, still water.
But now I am the thing of crime,
That stray’d from what her parent taught her.
I lov’d one hostile to our faith,
Professing that of Nazareth !
- ...Do let me know how your souls prosper? I have but little to say about the growth of mine. Alas! alas! I am a dwarf still. Still water’d, still blessed and succeeded; and yet (oh, base ingratitude!) still unthankful, still unfruitful, still unhumbled. Continue, therefore, my very dear sir, to pray for me. Indeed and indeed I do for you...
G.W.ex “Whitefieldiana” no. 13, “On Board the Friendship, May 2, 1755”
in Christian Treasury (“Containing contributions from ministers and members of various Evangelical denominations”) vol. 24 (Edinburgh, October 1, 1868) : 466-467
UCLA copy/scan (via google books) : link
explanation of the material in preceding number (September 1, 1868) : 428-430
linkGW would be
George Whitefield (1714-1770), “minister and preacher... one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement”
not to mention, slaveholder, advocate of slavery and against cruel treatment of slaves...
a man with an unhappy wife
wikipedia : link
- OCR confusion at table with many “still water” line-breaks at “still,”
in a compilation of Swimming Records, The World Almanac and Encyclopedia “Monthly Edition,” 5:52 (January 1898) : 230 : linkall italicized refrains are selections from these swimming stills; they are followed (but not used here) by records for Women Swimmers, and Swimming on Back (no still waters among them)
- “Sisters,” came the beautiful answer, “our hearts knew no fear, because Jesus was together with us. Outside, the streets, like rough tumultuous waters, were all noise, loud voices, confusion. Inside here, our hearts, like still, still water, were all peace.”
The only people who owned to having been afraid, were the poor lepers in their settlement...Mary E. Darley. The Light of the Morning : The story of C. E. Z. M. S. work in the Kien-ning Prefecture of the Fuh-kien Province, China. (London, 1903) : 175
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link
UCLA copy/scan (via hathitrust) : linkmuch of the narrative is set against anti-foreign (and Christian) riots of 1892, 1899; describes obstacles and various instances of success.
Mary E. Darley (c1870-1934), “Missionary in China of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, supported by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Dublin University Fuh-Kien Mission.”
author of Cameos of a Chinese City (1917)
UCLA copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
- This long side-trip put into my mental picture gallery many of its most precious treasures. I remember especially one reach of still, still, water with slim young trees growing close to it, and in among the sedges, an alert red deer, so motion-less that he seemed an animal carved in red stone.
We came back to the home-camp to find Father gloating over his big catch...ex Bertha F. Gordon, “Afoot and Afloat on the Border,” Outers’ Recreation (Edited by Dan B. Starkey) 63:1 (July 1920) : 28-29, 76-79 (79)
Cornell copy/scan (via google books) : linkmore on Bertha F. Gordon at a writings and about page, 2638
- from caption (and nearby text) to Fig. 2 — “Continuous method of refining asphalt,” illustrating R. G. Smith, “Asphalt,” in David Talbot Day, A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry vol. 1 (1922) : 787-830 (789)
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link
same copy/scan (via hathitrust) : linkmultiple copies of this and volume 2 via hathitrust : link
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... Still Still / Water cooling / Drain / Cooling spray / Asphaltum cooler / Steam to heating coil / Barrel filling valve / Steam to stills / asphalt cooler where...
- in still still water
water random wandering
in current still water
random wandering
against current / then swept to lower end of trough
against current / none, or swept downstreamselected from previewed result, ex somewhere/when in Journal of the Biological Board of Canada, vols 3-4 (1937) : 494 : link (google books, snippet only)
something about fish, their successful (or not) encounters with fish ladders?
wikipedia : link
- How we love that Shepherd Psalm that tells us of the still waters. It brings to mind the old mill race. Remember how it turned off from the creek and then made its way through the meadow and to the wheel. It was deep, yes, and so very still. Still water, but back of it was power to turn the mill : a power that seemed to be hidden; but it was there. It turned the wheels to make the meal for daily bread. And in that still water was the voice of God. How...
somewhere in The Lutheran 22:17 (1940 ?) : 7 : link (google books, snippet only)
- “Solar Still — “Still Water” in Index, July 1957-June 1958, Approach (The Naval Aviation Safety Review) 4:1 (July 1958)
U Illinois copy/scan (via google books) : link
pointing to
“Still Water” in Approach 3:6 (December 1957) : 18
U Colorado, Boulder copy/scan (via google books) : linkdifferent volumes/scans (1950-70), available via google books : link
- ...ing up is because of the way we live. If we have enough to eat and and a bed to sleep on, we feel satisfied with life.
Yet that’s not growing up. That’s only living and standing still. Still water never runs deep. You have to go out into life and help make a groove for yourself. You have to go out and fight and win battles for yourself. You have to keep on climbing to go over the top. There are two kind ...snippet only, Floyd H. Iobst, The Moving Finger Writes (1957) : 35 snippet only (at google books) : link
a conduct-of-life book, by author of Uncle Hiram says... : sage advice / as reported by Floyd H. Iobst (New York, Exposition Press, c1951)
LoC : permalink LoC permalinkThe phrase “The moving finger writes” likely referring to the “quatrain by Omar Khayyam known as ‘The Moving Finger’ in the form of its translation by the English poet Edward Fitzgerald.” see wikipedia for more : link
and the wikipedia disambigulation page : link
- ... still, still water’s flow; yet there I see after my hot, spent rage, innocents picking flowers; and I know somewhere a sprout is dormant; one clean page waits for the toiler’s fingers to find deep brown bulbs that hold a whiteness ...
— author, title unknown, ex Approach : A Literary Quarterly vol. 22-37 (1957?) : 11
snippet only (google books) : link
- swimmers and sunners gather on the long beach at Los Muertos, named not in tristeza but for the still, still water.
— somewhere/when in Vogue 136 (1960) : 150 : link (google books, snippet only)
Vogue appears to be mistaken about the origin of the name "Los Muertos" — see account at wikipedia entry for Playa de los Muertos (Puerto Vallarta), in the state of Jalisco: link
- ...the lake was absolutely motionless. This phenomenon was possibly due to the very low temperature of the lake, which would cause the warmer, lighter winds, blowing from over the land, to rise when they reached the water. The ] still, still water and its remarkable transparency produced effects which were quite uncanny. Paddling along in the canoe, in forty to sixty feet of water, one could see every little pebble on the bottom as clearly as if the water ...
ex Richard Bernie Miller, A Cool Curving World (1962) : 114 : link (google books, snippet only)
- still, still water
the title of the chapter ending the middle section of Mike Freeman, Drifting : Two Weeks on the Hudson (2011) : 121
borrowable at archive.org : linkHere, he’s going through locks : Lock Number 5. Schuylerville. Troy’s federal lock, the last lock, opening out to tide water. But no smell of salt —
“That the Hudson is an old fjord leaves it with scant incline, and on high tides the fresh water tumbles back a hundred and fifty miles. Paddling against tides isn’t difficult, you simply go slower. Usually enough eddies and still water exist along the edges to make a guerilla game of it, and tides, of course, turn...” (125)
- ...Do let me know how your souls prosper? I have but little to say about the growth of mine. Alas! alas! I am a dwarf still. Still water’d, still blessed and succeeded; and yet (oh, base ingratitude!) still unthankful, still unfruitful, still unhumbled. Continue, therefore, my very dear sir, to pray for me. Indeed and indeed I do for you...