LADYWELL — CHALYBEATE SPRING. 7 



]^ on e — 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— I friendship prize, % 

 And gladly seek the good and wise ; 



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

 the little hamlet of Lady well, the name of Lady well is not 

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

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

 powerful chalybeate, 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 veterum libris, nunc somno inertibus horis, 

 Ducere solicits jucunda oblivia vitae. — Horat. 



% Ego vos hortari tantum possum, utamicitiam omnibus rebus 

 hnmanis anteponatis; nihil est enim tarn natura? aptum, tarn con- 

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



