In every hour o' the day, could you but know!

I saw my crowning mercy: all have such,

Could they but see!" Well, sir, why don't they see?

"Because they won't look,—or perhaps, they can't."

Then, sir, suppose I can, and will, and do

Look, microscopically as is right,

Into each hour with its infinitude

Of influences at work to profit Sludge?

For that 's the case: I 've sharpened up my sight

To spy a providence in the fire's going out,