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Lines On A Fountain.

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We love cold water as it flows from the fountain,             Which nature hath brewed alone in the mountain;             In the wild woods and in the rocky dell,             Where man hath not been but the deer loves to dwell;             And away across the sea in far distant lands,             In Asia's gloomy jungles and Africa's drifting sands;             Where to the thirsty traveller a charming spot of green             Is by far the rarest gem his eyes have ever seen;             And when he has quenched his thirst at the cooling spring,             With many grateful songs he makes the air to ring;             For many nights he dreams of this scene of bliss,             And when he thinks of Heaven it is of such as this.

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