By Dame Fortune awaked, truth to tell,
Said she, "Hadst been drowned,
'Twould have surely been found
This by Fortune, not Folly befel."
FORTUNE IS NOT ANSWERABLE FOR OUR WANT OF FORESIGHT
Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 61.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Crane images. Notice the genius way that Crane has drawn the story inside a wheel... the wheel of Fortune, of course!
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