ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING, FORMING A COLD BATH, AT COOMBE, NEAR DONHEAD, BELONGING TO MY BROTHER, CHAS. BOWLES, ESQ. William Lisle Bowles Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street... 1855 pp. 98-99.

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ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING , FORMING A COLD BATH , AT COOMBE , NEAR DONHEAD , BELONGING TO MY BROTHER , CHAS . BOWLES , ESQ . Fountain , that sparklest through the shady place , Making a soft , sad murmur o'er the stones That strew thy lucid way ! Oh , if some guest Should haply wander near , with slow disease Smitten , may thy cold springs the rose of health Bring back , and the quick lustre to his eye ! The ancient oaks that on thy margin wave , The song of birds , and through the rocky cave The clear stream gushing , their according sounds Should mingle , and , like some strange music , steal Sadly , yet soothing , o'er his aching breast . And thou , pale exile from thy native shores , French priests , who have a residence near . Here drink , — oh , couldst thou ! — as of Lethe's stream ! Nor friends , nor bleeding country , nor the views Of hills or streams beloved , nor vesper bell , Heard in the twilight vale , remember more !