Returns to the Fountain



Talk not of wasted affection! affection
        never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its
        waters, returning
Back to the springs, like the rain, shall
        fill them full of refershment:
That which the fountain sends forth returns
        again to the fountain.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Evangeline, 1847







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