| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Fountain | | By Sir Edward Sherburne (1618–1702) |
| | | STRANGER, whoe’er thou art, that stoop’st to taste | |
| These sweeter streams, let me arrest thy haste; | |
| Nor of their fall | |
| The murmurs (though the lyre | |
| Less sweet be) stand to admire. | 5 |
| But as you shall | |
| See from this marble tun | |
| The liquid crystal run, | |
| And mark withal | |
| How fixed the one abides, | 10 |
| How fast the other glides; | |
| Instructed thus, the difference learn to see | |
| ’Twixt mortal life and immortality. | | | | |
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