Eight Poems by Tennyson

Song Cycle by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953)

?. Enid's song [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

[It chanced the song that Enid sang was one
Of Fortune and her wheel, and Enid sang:]¹

'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.'

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in Enid and Nimuë: The True and the False

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¹ omitted in most settings; included in Richmond's.

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