Some thoughts I have, not intending myself to flatter.

Divorce is a question about which many disagree;

Some think it’s wrong; some think it’s right maybe.

Now upon it let’s begin our wordy fight and see.

For a beginning I will postulate, simply to open the debate,

That it is not an affair of the state that couples separate,

When they each other fervently hate;

Except where children, a care about whose fate,

On the conscience of the public might grate,

Are brought into court for the judge to state