Crossword-Solution: SPRINGLET 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They dug his grave e’en where he lay, But every mark is gone: Time’s wasting hand has done away The simple cross of Sybil Gray, And broke her font of stone; But yet out from the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still.

Every little rill and springlet ran like a mill-tail, while the main stream rushed and roared, foaming, leaping, lashing, its volume increased fifty-fold.

Here I have killed them when there was ice thicker than a dollar on all the waters round about, and when you might see a thin and smoke-like mist boiling up from each springlet.

She gave him a draught freshly drawn from the springlet,-- O Tunbridge, thy waters are bitter, alas! But Love finds an ambush in dimple and ringlet,-- "Thy health, pretty maiden!"--he emptied the glass.

But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still, as it did in those old Brantwood days when we picked and shovelled together, first unearthing its miniature ravine; and as perhaps it may--for no one can foretell the fate of any sacred spot--when the pilgrim of the future tries to identify by its help alone the whereabouts of Ruskin's deserted garden.