Now let us sing, Long live the king!

And Gilpin, Long live he!

And when he next doth ride abroad,

May I be there to see!

William Cowper (1731-1800): History of John Gilpin.

Things are in the saddle,

And ride mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.

What more felicitie can fall to creature

Than to enjoy delight with libertie,

And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,

To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,

To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209.