Ben Jonson


                        Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
        Yet slower, yet; O faintly gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
        Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.
                    Droop herbs and flowers;
                    Fall grief in showers;
                    Our beauties are not ours;
                          O, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
                    Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.


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