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Ad Fontium Nymphas.

"Reach with your whiter hands to me
The crystal of the spring," etc.
Herrick.

O latice ex illâ si jam mihi virgine, lympha
Candida tendatur candidiore manu!
Protinus, hoc facto, pateram circumque superque
Lilia conspiciam florida vere suo.

Aut tandem hoc, Nymphæ, mihi cedite sæpe precanti
Pocula tam dulci tangite clara labro;
Et, simul ac vestris aqua sit conjuncta labellis,
Flumine mutao rebor adesse merum.