Nothing but death could break the ties which bound
That faithful servant to his father’s house.
She then for whose forgiveness he had yearn’d,
Who in her blessing would have given and found
The peace of Heaven, ... she then was to the grave
Gone down disconsolate at last; in this
Of all the woes of her unhappy life
Unhappiest, that she did not live to see
God had vouchsafed repentance to her child.
But then a hope arose that yet she lived;