Sam Walter Foss, in “Songs of the Average Man,” is the author of this
assuring verse:
The deep-down things are strong and great,
Firm-fixt, unchangeable as fate,
Inevitable, inviolate,
The deep-down things.
The deep-down things! All winds that blow,
All seething tides that foam and flow
May smite but can not overflow
The deep-down things.
The surge of years engulfs the land
And crumbles mountains into sand,
But yet the deep-down things withstand
The surge of years.
Behind the years that waste and smite,
And topple empires into night,
God dwells unchanged in changeless light
Behind the years. (Text.)
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