<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The Fountain</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Don’t say, don’t say there is no water </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">To solace the dryness at our hearts.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I have seen</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The fountain springing out of the rock wall</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">And you drinking there. And I too </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Before your eyes</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Found footholds and climbed</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to drink the cool water.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The woman of that place, shading her eyes,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Frowned as she watched—but not because </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">she grudged the water,</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Only because she was waiting </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to see we drank our fill and were</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">refreshed.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Don’t say, don’t say there is no water.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">That fountain is there among its scalloped </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">green and gray stones,</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">It is still there and always there </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">with its quiet song and strange power </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to spring in us, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">up and out through the rock.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Denise Levertov</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>