LADYWELL — CHALYBEATE SPRING. 7 



None — none ; — then now, O Fount ! to thee, 



Let this first offering hallowed be. 



While many seek the ocean's shore 



And listen to his hollow roar ; 



May I, with calm delight, still sing 



Of thee, unostentatious spring !* 



I love the woods, the hills, the fields ; 

 Will you attend me, Lady ! there 

 To hear the Birds — to snuff the air — 

 To taste the pleasures Nature yields. 

 I love the country and its calm. 

 For many wounds a sovereign balm.f 

 I loathe the city and its noise, — 

 Its tumult, pageants, and its toys. 

 Mistake me not — 1 friendship prize,t 

 And gladly seek the good and wise ; 



* It ought to be mentioned, that, although tliis spring is in 

 the little hamlet of Ladvwell, the name of Ladywell isjiot 

 derived from it. Ladywell, the fountain so called, produces 

 pellucid and excellent water. The spring here alluded to is a 

 powerful chalyheate, and totally unfit for common use. It is 

 similar in its properties to the waters of Tunbridge; and, were 

 it farther from the metropolis, would, long ere this, have ob- 

 tained celebrity. Those who may be desirous of knowing this 

 spring, will find it at a cottage inhabited by Mr» Russell. 



t O rus, quando ego te aspiciam? quandoque licebit 

 Nunc veteium libris, nunc somno inertibus horis, 

 Duceresolicitae jucunda oblivia vitae. — Horat. 



J Ego vos hortari tantum possum, utamicitiam omnibus rebus 

 hnma^iis anteponatis; nihil est enim tarn naturae aptum, tarn con- 

 veniens ad res secundas vel adversas. — Cicero de Amicitia. 



