Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

to the Lord Halifax. iii
Fir’d with a thousand Raptures I survey
Eridanus through ssow’ry Meadows stray,
The King of Floods! that rowling o’er the Plains
The tow’ring Alps of half their Moisture drains,
And,proudly swoln with a whole Winter’s Snows,
Distributes Wealth and Plenty where he ssows.
Sometimes, miiguided by the tuneful Throng,
I look for Streams immortaliz’d in Song,
That lost in Silence and Oblivion lye,
(Dumb are their Fountainsand their Channels dry)
Yet run for ever by the Muses Skill,
And in the smooth Description murmur (till.
Sometimes to gentle Tiber I retire,
And the fam’d River’s empty Shores admire^
That destitute of Strength derives its Course
From thristy Urns and an unfruitful Sourse;
Yet, sung so often in Poetick Lays,
With Scorn the Danube and the Nile Purveys.
So high the deathless Muse exalts her Theme!