The Fountain

The Fountain

Fountain,fountain, what do you saySinging at night alone?“It is enough to rise and fallHere in my basin of stone.”But are you content as you seem to beSo near the freedom and rush of the sea?“I have listened all night to its laboring sound,It heaves and sags, as the moon runs round;Ocean and fountain, shadow and tree,Nothing escapes, nothing is free.”

Fountain,fountain, what do you saySinging at night alone?“It is enough to rise and fallHere in my basin of stone.”But are you content as you seem to beSo near the freedom and rush of the sea?“I have listened all night to its laboring sound,It heaves and sags, as the moon runs round;Ocean and fountain, shadow and tree,Nothing escapes, nothing is free.”

Fountain,fountain, what do you saySinging at night alone?“It is enough to rise and fallHere in my basin of stone.”

Fountain,fountain, what do you say

Singing at night alone?

“It is enough to rise and fall

Here in my basin of stone.”

But are you content as you seem to beSo near the freedom and rush of the sea?“I have listened all night to its laboring sound,It heaves and sags, as the moon runs round;Ocean and fountain, shadow and tree,Nothing escapes, nothing is free.”

But are you content as you seem to be

So near the freedom and rush of the sea?

“I have listened all night to its laboring sound,

It heaves and sags, as the moon runs round;

Ocean and fountain, shadow and tree,

Nothing escapes, nothing is free.”


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