Made mindful of delinquent's bygone deeds

Now that remorse was vain, which life-long lay

Dormant when lesson might be laid to heart;

New gift of observation up and down

And round man's self, new power to apprehend

Each necessary consequence of act

In man for well or ill—things obsolete—

Just granted to supplant the idiocy

Man's only guide while act was yet to choose,

With ill or well momentously its fruit;