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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

5275 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:5275
AUTHOR:Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
QUOTATION:In the hexameter rises the fountain’s silvery column,
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
ATTRIBUTION:The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. (From Schiller.)