Matthew Arnold (1822–88). The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. 1909.
New Poems, 1867The Progress of Poesy
A Variation
[First published 1867.]
[First published 1867.]
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And strikes the rock, and finds the vein,
And brings the water from the fount,
The fount which shall not flow again.
For the bright stream a channel grand,
And sees not that the sacred drops
Ran off and vanish’d out of hand.
And feebly rakes among the stones.
The mount is mute, the channel dry;
And down he lays his weary bones.