“And doth it not enter my mind (as my warm tears attest),
“These good things being given, to go on, and give one more, the best?
“Ay, to save and redeem and restore him, maintain at the height
“This perfection,—succeed, with life’s dayspring, death’s minute of night:
“Interpose at the difficult minute, snatch Saul, the mistake,
“Saul, the failure, the ruin he seems now,—and bid him awake
“From the dream, the probation, the prelude, to find himself set
“Clear and safe in new light and new life,—a new harmony yet
“To be run and continued, and ended—who knows?—or endure!
“The man taught enough by life’s dream, of the rest to make sure;