"As running Streams their parted Waters spread / Adown the hill or thr&ocirc; the flow'ry Mead / Here rising bold and Turbulent in waves / There sunk in Sand or sunk in Rocky Caves / The human Eye may still collect and bring / To their first Murmur and Original spring: / 
So from the various action of our mind."
Predestination. A Poem [from Longleat MS.]
Reading <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, eds. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971).