The Knickerbocker Gallery/Ad Fontium Nymphas

by Charles Astor Bristed

For other versions of this work, see Ad Fontium Nymphas.

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Ad Fontium Nymphas.

 

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By C. A. B.

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"Reach with your whiter hands to meThe 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.