Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)

Inscription for a Fountain

REST! This little Fountain runs

Thus for aye:—It never stays

For the look of summer suns,

Nor the cold of winter days.

Whosoe’er shall wander near,

When the Syrian heat is worst,

Let him hither come, nor fear

Lest he may not slake his thirst:

He will find this little river

Running still, as bright as ever.

Let him drink, and onwards hie,

Bearing but in thought, that I,

EROTAS, bade the Naiad fall,

And thank the great god Pan for all!