Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome | | The Fountains of Rome | | John Dyer (1700?–1758) |
| | (From Ruins of Rome)
THINE too those musically falling founts | |
| To slake the clammy lip; adown they fall, | |
| Musical ever; while from yon blue hills | |
| Dim in the clouds, the radiant aqueducts | |
| Turn their innumerable arches o’er | 5 |
| The spacious desert, brightening in the sun, | |
| Proud and more proud, in their august approach: | |
| High o’er irriguous vales and woods and towns, | |
| Glide the soft whispering waters in the wind, | |
| And here united pour their silver streams | 10 |
| Among the figured rocks, in murmuring falls, | |
| Musical ever. | | | | |
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