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A Secret Spring
by:
Theognis of Megara
(6th century B.C.)
translated by James Davies
While only I quaffed yonder secret spring,
'Twas clear and sweet to my imagining.
'Tis turbid now. Or it no more I drink,
But hang o'er other stream or river-brink.
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