by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
It chanced the song that Enid sang was...
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It chanced the song that Enid sang was one Of Fortune and her wheel, and Enid sang: 'Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud; Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud; Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate. 'Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; With that wild wheel we go not up or down; Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. 'Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands; Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands; For man is man and master of his fate. 'Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd; Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud; Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.'
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- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in Enid and Nimuë: The True and the False [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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