| T. Allom. | J. Tingle. |
SPRING OF THE MIRACULOUS FISHES AT BALOUKLI.
NEAR CONSTANTINOPLE
Of all the “Ayasmata,” or Holy Wells, in the vicinity of Constantinople, this is held in highest estimation by the Greeks, whose faith in its efficacy seems daily to increase. Many poets have devoted their gift of verse to its celebration; but two are more eminently distinguished. Nicephorus the most Beautiful, called, from his mellifluous song, the “Attic Bee;” and Johannes with the flowing hair, who acquired for himself the name of the “Sweet-voiced Grasshopper.” The former thus eulogizes the health-giving spring.
The stricken rock sent forth the bubbling tide:
That rock was Christ, the sacred bards declare−
The perishable nature never died,
Which drank its rill.−But, lo! faint mortal, where