Opportunity Lost/ Lost Opportunity

Opportunity Lost/ Lost Opportunity

The first way sounds more poetic than the second.

Art musing: artists are supposed to have the soul of a poet. Hmmm. THE BOY STOOD ON THE BURNING DECK!!! Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled -
The twit!