Twice, every day, the waves efface
Of staves and sandalled feet the trace.”
Towards the end of the same poem, in connection with the Lady Clare’s quest of water for the dying Marmion, we find the following reference:—
“Where shall she turn?—behold her mark
A little fountain cell,
Where water, clear as diamond-spark,
In a stone basin fell!
Above, some half-worn letters say,
‘Drink . weary . pilgrim . drink . and . pray .
For . the . kind . soul . of . Sybil . Grey .