Written On A Wall At Woodstock

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Written On A Wall At Woodstock is a poem by Elizabeth I, proposed to Delia for Poets in Prison.

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                                    Elizabeth I
WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK

Oh, fortune, thy wresting wavering state
Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit,
Whose witness this present prison late
Could bear, where once was joy's loan quit.
Thou causedst the guilty to be loosed
From bands where innocents were inclosed,
And caused the guiltless to be reserved
And freed those that death had well deserved.
But all herein can be nothing wrought,
So God send my foes all they have thought.