All in his view was not so sunk and lost,
But of a trial things would pay the cost.
He judged the widow, and he saw the way
In which her husband suffer’d her to stray;
He saw entangled and perplex’d affairs,
And Time’s sure hand at work on their repairs;
Children he saw; but nothing could he see,
Why he might not their careful father be;
And, looking keenly round him, he believed
That what was lost might quickly be retrieved. 220