SAINT KEYNES WELL.

By Robert Southey.
(From Carew’s History of Cornwall.)

A well there is in the West Country,

And a clearer one never was seen;

There is not a Wife in the West Country,

But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne.

An oak and an elm tree stand behind,

And beside does an ash-tree grow;

And a willow, from the bank above,

Droops to the water below.