Or that the Russian army should repent all:
And, strange to say, they found some consolation
In this—for females like exaggeration.
LXXVI.
And then with tears, and sighs, and some slight kisses,
They parted for the present—these to await,
According to the artillery's hits or misses,
What sages call Chance, Providence, or Fate—
(Uncertainty is one of many blisses,
A mortgage on Humanity's estate;)[HV]