 And after they have washed their tender skin in Permessus or Hippocrene or holy Olmeidus, they perform choral dances on highest Helicon, beautiful, lovely ones, and move nimbly with their feet.John Keats refers to Hippocrene in his poem "Ode to a Nightingale".O for a beaker full of the warm South
Full of the true, the blushful "Hippocrene",
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim