"Medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat."
— Lucretius

January 1, 1970

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Compare: "Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs / Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, stanza 82