Wherever the water flows all living creatures teeming in it will live.
Fish will be very plentiful for wherever the water goes, it brings health.
The cleansing water from the temple helps us strive.
The pure water gives spiritual wealth.

This water is truly wholesome.
How else when it comes from the sanctuary.
Swept away in its stream, ever changing, no one ever lonesome.
Cleansed by it, crossing the river Styx, we will have no need of a ferry.

The rivers Acheron, Cocylus, Lethe, Philegeton, and Styx all converge in a great marsh.
It is said thus we all arrive in the underworld.
This Greek philosophy is harsh.
But I have a vision of another river in another world.

The waters of our river give joy to God’s city.
All comes right with, to the weak, pity.