Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire.
I do wander everywhere
swifter than the moon's sphere.
We are such stuff
as dreams are made on, and our little life
is rounded with a sleep.
O, it is excellent
to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
and we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.