Which god-delighting men have for their drinking,

And which from shuttling colours takes a glance

As though culled blossoms from a rainbow-garden

By Iris’ very hands thereon were strown,

When in this fount, that from Parnassus springs,

A troubling stone is flung, it falls to boiling

And starts in wheeling turmoil hilly-high.

Then sings no more on earth the nightingale

Nor evermore the lark, and in the heights

A dumbness holds the Muses’ holy choir,