Stripping an almond tree in flower <br />The wise apothecary's skill <br />A single drop of lethal power <br />From perfect sweetness can distill <br /> <br />From bitterness in efflorescence, <br />With murderous poisons packed therein; <br />The poet draws pellucid essence <br />Pure as a drop of metheglin.<br /><br />Elinor Morton Wylie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/little-joke/
