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Alfred Tennyson
Idylls of the King (1859/85)
 


 






 




The Marriage of Geraint
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   Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.

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

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   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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