"Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."

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Stanza 82. Compare: "Medio de fonte leporum / Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat" (translated: "In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers", Lucretius, iv. 1133.