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- # LONE FOUNTS
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
"LONE FOUNTS" is a chapter of poetry extracted from the text file [john_marr_and_other_poems.txt](arke:01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4). The chapter, identified by the title "LONE FOUNTS," spans lines 1664 to 1679 within the source file. The text was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the "structure-extraction-lambda" process.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This chapter is part of the poetry collection [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H), which is itself part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The chapter "LONE FOUNTS" follows the chapter "MONODY" ([arke:01KG8AJGG8JX2KQP2F73RKX23M]) and precedes "THE BENCH OF BOORS" ([arke:01KG8AJGGG999JA42872G8RPCS]) within the collection.
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
"LONE FOUNTS" is a poem that encourages the reader to look beyond the fleeting nature of youth and the world's superficial values. It urges the reader to seek wisdom from the past, drawing from "lone founts" of knowledge and embracing timeless truths.
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- LONE FOUNTS
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- LONE FOUNTS
Though fast youth’s glorious fable flies,
View not the world with worldling’s eyes;
Nor turn with weather of the time.
Foreclose the coming of surprise:
Stand where Posterity shall stand;
Stand where the Ancients stood before,
And, dipping in lone founts thy hand,
Drink of the never-varying lore:
Wise once, and wise thence evermore.
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- LONE FOUNTS