John Bannister Tabb

1845-1909 / the United States

Mountain-Born

How hast thou, little spring,
The heart to sing,
Leaving thy lofty home
For yonder plain,
Whence ne'er again
Returning canst thou come?
'Nay not as now I go;
But mute as snow,'
The laughing wave replies;
'To crown the height,
In vapors white
Again I nightly rise.'
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