Other men's faults may help me find your own.

I need the cruelty exposed, explained,

Or how can I advise you to forgive?"

He thought I could not properly forgive

Unless I ceased forgetting,—which is true:

For, bringing back reluctantly to mind

My husband's treatment of me,—by a light

That 's later than my lifetime, I review

And comprehend much and imagine more,

And have but little to forgive at last.