“Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings;
Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.”

—  Richard Gifford

Contemplation. Compare: "The sad vicissitude of things", Laurence Sterne, Sermon xvi.

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