TIME GOES BY TURNS.
_ The lopped tree in time may grow again, Most naked plants renew their fruit and flower ; (The sorriest wight may find release of pain, lie driest soil suck in some moistening shower — Time goes by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better bap to worse. The sea of fortune doth not ever flow, She draws her favours to the lowest ebb ; Her tide have equal times to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web — No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hope so hard but may in fine amend. Not always fall of leaf, nor ever spring ; Not endless night, nor yet eternal day ; "The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay. Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempered all, "That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall. A clianoe may win that by mischance was lost ; That net that holds so great, takes little fish ; In some things all, in all twinge none are crossed : Few all they need, but none have all they ■wish. Unmingled joys here to no man befall ; Who least, hath some ; who most, hath never all. Robert Southwell, -15Q0.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 12 February 1870, Page 7
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211TIME GOES BY TURNS. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 12 February 1870, Page 7
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