Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la'   qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne¤  , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a"  ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Les Regrets, no.31.

Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.

-Hale, SarahJosepha ne¤  e Buell
  Poems for Our Children,'Mary's Little Lamb'.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.31.