Bandusian Spring, as crystal clear, With flowers, thy due, and pleasant wine, A kid to-morrow shall be thine, Whose horns just budding forth appear, Portending love and war. In vain! Child of the wanton flock, his blood The ice-cold current of thy flood Ere long with crimson hue shall stain. The blazing Dog-star's scorching heat Doth touch thee not. Oh! grateful thou To oxen wearied of the plough, And the faint herd with wandering feet. Thou, too, ennobled, shalt be found Among Earth's fountains, while I sing Thy bubbling rills, that downward spring From hollow crags with ilex crown'd. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BREST LEFT BEHIND by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR ASPATIA'S SONG, FR. THE MAID'S TRAEGDY by JOHN FLETCHER LUCY (1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH OF HIS CONVERSION by WILLIAM ALABASTER LOVE'S NEW PHILOSOPHY by PHILIP AYRES LILIES: 13. 'LET US NEVER COMFORT EACH OTHER INTO SLEEP' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED by BERNARD BARTON |