Are deep, but thou, forgive them, and confess,

That, e’en midst all the fulness of our woe,

High, holy joy remains. Death! death!—our foes,

Our most relentless foes, can only speed

Th’ inevitable hour. Oh! man hath not

Invented death for man; it would be then

Madd’ning and insupportable: from heaven

’Tis sent, and heaven doth temper all its pangs

With such blest comfort as no mortal power

Can give or take away. My wife! my child!