“I need not take it, it is not so late;
Better will come if we will longer stay,
And strive to put ourselves in fortune’s way:”
And thus they wait, till many years are past,
For what comes slowly—but it comes at last.
Harriet was wedded,—but it must be said,
The vow’d obedience was not duly paid.
Hers was an easy man—it gave him pain
To hear a lady murmur and complain;
He was a merchant, whom his father made 80