Poems on several occasions | ||
194
INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN.
O you, who mark what flowrets gay,
What gales, what odours breathing near,
What sheltering shades from summer's ray
Allure my spring to linger here:
What gales, what odours breathing near,
What sheltering shades from summer's ray
Allure my spring to linger here:
Yet see me quit this margin green,
Yet see me deaf to Pleasure's call,
Explore the thirsty haunts of men,
Yet see my bounty flow for all.
Yet see me deaf to Pleasure's call,
Explore the thirsty haunts of men,
Yet see my bounty flow for all.
195
O learn of me—no partial rill,
No slumbering selfish pool be you;
But social laws alike fulfil;
O slow for all creation too!
No slumbering selfish pool be you;
But social laws alike fulfil;
O slow for all creation too!
Poems on several occasions | ||