arethusan

Updated: March 27, 2026

Yet, amid the "briny tides" of that sea, amid turmoil and perplexity and the saddest of mysteries, it preserves its earliest gentleness, and its inward, noiseless peace, till once more it gushes up toward the sweet heaven through the Arethusan font of death.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863