Rising Universe

Nipped into Horsham on the way home from work. Took this quick photo of The Rising Universe otherwise known as Shelley's Fountain. It was built to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was born near Horsham. It is loathed and loved by local residents. Every 5 minutes or so it slowly descends and then releases gallons of water whilst it rises, for the whole cycle to happen again.

An extract from Shelley's 1817 poem 'Mont Blanc' appears on a plaque on the sculpture:

The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom -
Now lending splendour, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings
Of waters, - with a sound but half its own,
Such as a feeble brook will oft assume
In the wild woods, among the mountains lone,
Where waterfalls around it leap for ever,
Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river
Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves.