Flow not so fast ye fountains;
What needeth all this haste?
Swell not above your mountains
Nor spend your time in waste.
Gentle springs freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.

Weep they apace whom Reason
Or ling`ring Time can ease.
My sorrow can no Season
Nor aught besides appease.
Gentle springs freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.

Time can abate the terror
Of every common pain;
But common grief is error
True grief will still remain.
Gentle springs freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.