| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Inscription on a Fountain | | By Edward Lovibond (1724–1775) |
| | | O YOU, who mark what flowrets gay, | |
| What gales, what odours breathing near, | |
| What sheltering shades from summer’s ray | |
| Allure my spring to linger here. | |
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| You see me quit this margin green, | 5 |
| Yet see me deaf to pleasure’s call, | |
| Explore the thirsty haunts of men, | |
| Yet see my bounty flow for all. | |
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| O learn of me—no partial rill, | |
| No slumbering selfish pool be you; | 10 |
| But social laws alike fulfil; | |
| O flow for all creation too! | | | | |
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