text: " The influence exerted upon our poet's mind and productions by the Byronian spirit to which we alluded a few pages back may be traced in very perceptible degree in the next poem which he gave to the public "The Fountain of Bakhtchisarai " a work in which is reflected as vividly as it is in the storied waters of the fount from which it takes its name all the wealth the profuse and abounding loveliness of the luxurious clime of the Tauric Chersonese