Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, UK, just north of Drift village, southwest of Penzance. The reservoir is approximately a mile (1.6 km) long. It has a large dam at its southern end, and at the northern end, splits into a northwestern and a northeastern arm. It is currently operated by South West Water.
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“But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It’s very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled “the past,” and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)