And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
The best lessons of life are to be learnt in his school:
Taught by time, my heart has learn’d to glow
For others’ good, and melt at others’ woe.
How well has Shakspeare expressed this work of the great reconciler:
Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light,
To stamp its seal on aged things,
To wake the morn, and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger, till he render right.