FELICITY KNOWS NO FENCE.
by Robert Herrick


OF both our fortunes good and bad we find
Prosperity more searching of the mind :
Felicity flies o'er the wall and fence,
While misery keeps in with patience.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 71.


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