Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails... The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 2by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - 2007 - 1143 pages
...merriment. The following stanza is a fair specimen of your quotations on this score: — Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis — And all mankind turn with it — heads or tails; talks undisguisedly of a 'Satanic School', and puts all his enemies into hell in a very wholesale and... | |
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