'Whither, thou turbid wave? <br />Whither, with so much haste, <br />As if a thief wert thou?' <br /> <br />'I am the Wave of Life, <br />Stained with my margin's dust; <br />From the struggle and the strife <br />Of the narrow stream I fly <br />To the Sea's immensity, <br />To wash from me the slime <br />Of the muddy banks of Time.'<br /><br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wave-from-the-german-of-tiedge/
