Inscription for a Wayside Spring

Ben Allaway (b. 1958)

 

 

All men from all lands kneel before you go
Cup your hands like a bowl
Let me overflow
Read what these words tell,
Lean down and know
Each one beside my brink
Bend down low;
Lost son, sad daughter bend down and drink.
I am the water of the well that makes men whole.
I am the cold water that restores your soul.

 

 

This piece was performed on Octarium Salutes Nature, April 2006.