Wild Fountains: A Poem

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Wild Fountains

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

When you are young the world is new,
And the reservoir is empty.
Elastic is the brain that thinks,
And from wild fountains deeply drinks,
Until no more can fitted be
In vaulted casks which once seas drew.

Then walk among the hoary kegs,
Laid down against the winter’s siege,
Which b…