| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | For a Fountain | | By Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | | REST! This little Fountain runs | |
| Thus for aye:—It never stays | |
| For the look of summer suns, | |
| Nor the cold of winter days. | |
| Whosoe’er shall wander near, | 5 |
| When the Syrian heat is worst, | |
| Let him hither come, nor fear | |
| Lest he may not slake his thirst: | |
| He will find this little river | |
| Running still, as bright as ever. | 10 |
| Let him drink, and onward hie, | |
| Bearing but in thought, that I, | |
| EROTAS, bade the Naiad fall, | |
| And thank the great god Pan for all! | | | | |
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