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It is likewise thronged with idlers , lounging over the iron railing , and with Forestieri , who came hither to see the famous fountain . Here , also , are seen men with buckets , urchins with cans , and maidens -LRB- a picture as old as the patriarchal times -RRB- bearing their pitchers upon their heads . For the water of Trevi is in request , far and wide , as the most refreshing draught for feverish lips , the pleasantest to mingle with wine , and the wholesomest to drink , in its native purity , that can anywhere be found . But now , at early midnight , the piazza was a solitude ; and it was a delight to behold this untamable water , sporting by itself in the moonshine , and compelling all the elaborate trivialities of art to assume a natural aspect , in accordance with its own powerful simplicity . `` What would be done with this water power , '' suggested an artist , `` if we had it in one of our American cities ? Would they employ it to turn the machinery of a cotton mill , I wonder ? '' `` The good people would pull down those rampant marble deities , '' said Kenyon , `` and , possibly , they would give me a commission to carve the one-and-thirty -LRB- is that the number ? -RRB-