“Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”

—  Thomas Moore

Part II.
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part I-III: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Variant: But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

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