The saddest birds a season find to sing; 15

The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;

Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,

That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.

A chance may win that by mischance was lost;

That net that holds no great, takes little fish; 20

In some things all, in all things none are crossed;

Few all they need, but none have all they wish;

Unmeddled joys here to no man befall,

Who least hath some, who most hath never all.