Discussion
The poet wants his heart to remain fresh. It means that he wants
Answer: D
The key reads this as to keep on moving all the time. The other option about ideas is the nearest rival, and the poem does not state the meaning outright.
The poet admires the fountain, which is always in motion, leaping 'from morn till night', and asks that his heart be 'Fresh, cheerful, constant, / Upward, like thee'. Water that keeps moving does not go stale, so 'fresh' is read as never stagnating, which the key expresses as moving on all the time.
Taking a bath regularly and dressing elegantly are literal and unrelated to a heart. 'To have new ideas all the time' is a fair paraphrase of freshness in everyday speech, and nothing in the lines I could check rules it out; it is the key's reading, with the fountain's constant motion as the comparison, that the question accepts.
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