vicissitude quotes

This sad vicissitude of things.

- Laurence Sterne
  Sermons,'The Character of Shimei', no.16.

Surprised by joyimpatient as the wind I turned to share the transportOh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? 928

-William Wordsworth
c.1812  'Surprised by joyimpatient as the wind', l.1^4 (published1815).The poet's second daughter, Catherine, who died inJune1812, is the'thee'referred to in the poem.