…. What be it that you crave for most? 

For if that be of what is pure, 

For if that be of what she gives in cure,

For if that be of those who seek, and not endure

Then drink I say to thee, drink,

Drink from her well, drink, 

Drink from her waters as like in tree, drink. 

Drink, for are you not formed of the very same? 

Are you not already of her, a soul aflame?

Then drink, drink in all her crystal nectar, 

So clear, so pure, that divine elixir 

Drink, and may it fill you with a life so verdant,

In faith unbroken, natural, spiced, resplendent

Drink, drink from her well, drink

Drink from the font of life, drink

And so that devil, that serpent, impure, so beastly,

Be cast out, expulsed, no more, completely

And with him his vile poison quashed, quelled, quenched,

Be you sated anew with the purest of rains, lips drenched

So if that be for which you thirst the most?

Then drink, drink from her well, drink

Drink from the purest of waters, from the God of all, drink.

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St. Bernard’s Well, Nr. Dean Village, Water of Leith Walkway, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. ~ 13 July 2023