While the landscape round it measures,

Russet lawns, and fallows gray,

Where the nibbling flocks do stray;

Mountains on whose barren breast

The lab'ring clouds do often rest;

Meadows trim with daisies pied;

Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

L'Allegro.

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;

With that wild wheel we go not up or down;