| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Fortune’s Wheel | | By Lord de Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren) (1835–1895) |
| | | I HAD a true-love, none so dear, | |
| And a friend both leal and tried. | |
| I had a cask of good old beer, | |
| And a gallant horse to ride. | |
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| A little while did Fortune smile | 5 |
| On him and her and me. | |
| We sang along the road of life | |
| Like birds upon a tree. | |
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| My lady fell to shame and hell, | |
| And with her took my friend. | 10 |
| My cask ran sour, my horse went lame,— | |
| So alone in the cold I end. | | | | |
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