Helicon

Helicon

Helicon (Hel´icon). A mountain in Boeotia sacred to the Muses, from which place the fountain Hippocrene flowed.

“Yet still the doting rhymer dreams,
And sings of Helicon’s bright streams;
But Helicon for all his clatter
Yields only uninspiring water.”

Broom, 1720

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