To be perchance a lower, to be curst,

For God, who’s great and merciful, is just,

And we, alas! what are we, that we must

By right partake the best, escape the worst?

It is a very bitter thing to die!

To some it is a bitter thing to live!

Patience and faith alone can comfort give,

Patience and faith—the rainbows in the sky.

Ye Last Scene of All.

Gaping and yawning,