THE TREASURE AND THE LAW SONG OF THE FIFTH RIVER When first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran , To each was appointed a Man Her Prince and Ruler to be . But after this was ordained , -LRB- The ancient legends tell -RRB- , There came dark Israel , For whom no River remained . Then He That is Wholly Just Said to him : ` Fling on the ground A handful of yellow dust , And a Fifth Great River shall run , Mightier than these four , In secret the Earth around ; And Her secret evermore Shall be shown to thee and thy Race . So it was said and done . And , deep in the veins of Earth , And , fed by a thousand springs That comfort the market-place , Or sap the power of Kings , The Fifth Great River had birth , Even as it was foretold -- The Secret River of Gold ! And Israel laid down His sceptre and his crown , To brood on that River bank , Where the waters flashed and sank , And burrowed in earth and fell , And bided a season below ; For reason that none might know , Save only Israel . He is Lord of the Last -- The Fifth , most wonderful , Flood . He hears Her thunder past And Her song is in his blood . He can foresay : ` She will fall , ' For he knows which fountain dries Behind which desert-belt A thousand leagues to the South . He can foresay : ` She will rise . ' He knows what far snows melt ; Along what mountain-wall A thousand leagues to the North . He snuffs the coming drought As he snuffs the coming rain , He knows what each will bring forth , And turns it to his gain . A Prince without a Sword , A Ruler without a Throne ; Israel follows his quest . In every land a guest , Of many lands a lord , In no land King is he . But the Fifth Great River keeps The secret of Her deeps For Israel alone , As it was ordered to be . The Treasure and the Law Now it was the third week in November , and the woods rang with the noise of pheasant-shooting . No one hunted that steep , cramped country except the village beagles , who , as often as not , escaped from their kennels and made a day of their own . Dan and Una found a couple of them towling round the kitchen-garden after the laundry cat . The little brutes were only too pleased to go rabbiting , so the children ran them all along the brook pastures and into Little Lindens farm-yard , where the old sow vanquished them -- and up to the quarry-hole , where they started a fox . He headed for Far Wood , and there they frightened out all the pheasants , who were sheltering from a big beat across the valley .
Then the cruel guns began again , and they grabbed the XXXXX lest they should stray and get hurt . '
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