The Fountain - Denise Levertov

[Larry Robinson]

The Fountain
 
Don’t say, don’t say there is no water 
To solace the dryness at our hearts.
I have seen
 
The fountain springing out of the rock wall
And you drinking there. And I too 
Before your eyes
 
Found footholds and climbed
to drink the cool water.
 
The woman of that place, shading her eyes,
Frowned as she watched—but not because 
she grudged the water,
 
Only because she was waiting 
to see we drank our fill and were
refreshed.
 
Don’t say, don’t say there is no water.
That fountain is there among its scalloped 
green and gray stones,
 
It is still there and always there 
with its quiet song and strange power 
to spring in us, 
up and out through the rock.

	- Denise Levertov

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