Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 10.

And the stern joy which warriors feel

In foemen worthy of their steel.

Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 10.

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,

Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!

Vain as the leaf upon the stream,

And fickle as a changeful dream;

[[492]]Fantastic as a woman's mood,

And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.