And care and crime in all their strength appear:

The news is read, a guilty victim swings,

And troubled looks proclaim the bosom-stings:

Some pair are wed; this brings the wife in view;

And some divorced; this shows the parting too:

Nor can he hear of evil word or deed,

But they to thought, and thought to sufferings lead.

Such was his life - no other changes came,

The hurrying day, the conscious night the same;

The night of horror - when he starting cried