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A Variation / Youth rambles on life's arid mount, / And strikes the rock, and finds the vein, / And brings the water from the fount, / The fount which shall not flow again.
The man mature with labour chops / For the bright stream a channel grand, / And sees not that the sacred drops / Ran off and vanish'd out of hand.
And then the old man totters nigh / And feebly rakes among the stones.
The mount is mute, the channel dry; / And down he lays his weary bones.