FOUNTAIN.
How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.—Psalm xxxvi. 7, 9.
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.—Zechariah, xiii. 1.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.—Revelation, xxi. 6.
He set before him spread
A table of celestial food divine,
Ambrosial fruits, fetched from the tree of life,
And from the fount of life ambrosial drink.
Milton.
Abused mortals! did you know
Where joy, heart’s-ease, and comforts grow,
You’d scorn proud towers,
And seek them in these bowers,
Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake,
But blustering care could never tempest make,
Nor murmurs e’er come nigh us,
Saving of fountains that glide by us.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
How free the fountain flows
Of endless life and joy!
The spring which no confinement knows,
Whose waters never cloy.
How sweet the accents sound
From the Redeemer’s tongue!
Assemble all ye nations round
In one obedient throng.
Ho, every thirsty soul
Approach the sacred spring,
Drink, and your fainting spirits cheer,
Renew the draught and sing.
Doddridge.
Why should the soul a drop bemoan,
Who has a fountain near,—
A fountain which shall ever run
With waters sweet and clear?
Ryland.