“Nor stops the restless fluid, mounting still,

Though oft amid th’ irriguous vale of springs;

But to the mountain courted by the sand,

That leads it darkling on in faithful maze,

Far from the parent main, it boils again!

Fresh into day; and all the glittering hill

Is bright with spouting rills.

The crystal treasures of the liquid world,

Through the stirred sands a bubbling passage burst;

And welling out, around the middle steep,