THE WELL.
(From, the German of Irene Forbes-Mosse.) I sat throughout the dead hot hours of noon, And life' seemed pale/and without throb ' or. stress.; ■ Upon the statues'' dreams; had , laid their boon.. . '■ "Drink and"be'strong," I heard the well's "voice.say, .... ■ ■ "Mine are the waters of forgetfulness." I sat throughout,the night, and i thought on . thought ... • > i Sped, back' to' youth-, and joy on eager ■ . wings.. : •; _ [ t . The moonbeams whispered, with-pale magic fraught, • .v "Drink not, ye souls, by fevered life distraught,. . Those are the waters of romembered things." '" ■.7 \ —H.F., in tho "Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 11
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94THE WELL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 11
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