While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat,
The common fate of all that’s high or great.
Low at his foot a spacious plain is plac’d,
Between the mountain and the stream embrac’d;
Which shade and shelter from the hill derives,
While the kind river wealth and beauty gives;
And in the mixture of all these appears
Variety, which all the rest endears.
Sir John Denham, 1618–1668.