Through a Fountain of Youth

Dead leaves become alive

Dead bugs too, as they touch

The water flying away

Those were the claims

Of David Copperfield

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Copperfield is a magician

But this wasn’t magic

For he bought four small islands

In the Bahamas

Which he claims has

This phenomenon

Which no one has been

Allowed to witness

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Other parts of the world have seen

Much speculation of the existence

Of such a Fountain

Including St. Augustine, Fla

Ethiopia, the Middle East

And the Americas

During the Age of Exploration

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Juan Ponce de Leon an explorer

During the Renaissance

Became associated

With such a spring in Florida

That is said to have

Restorative powers

For those that bathe in it

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Some visitors 

To this area drink the water

Hoping for some sort

Of rejuvenation

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Myths continue to be

Promulgated in popular culture

By well noted literary

And creative figures

Like Nathaniel Hawthorne

Orson Welles, Walt Disney

Computer games

And the 2006 film The Fountain

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