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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FOUNTAIN AT THE TOMB, by NICIAS Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay weary traveler, stay!
Last Line: His buried child to mourn.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Stay weary traveler, stay!
Last Line: His buried child to mourn.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones
STAY weary traveler, stay!
Beneath these boughs repose;
A step out of the way
My little fountain flows.
And never quite forget
The monumental urn,
Which Simus here hath set
His buried child to mourn.
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