In cells, that are not memory's—to draw

The moral thread, thro' the immoral eye

Of blunt Whitechapel natures, Mrs. Fry!

XII.

In vain you teach them baby-work within:

'Tis but a clumsy botchery of crime;

'Tis but a tedious darning of old sin—

Come out yourself, and stitch up souls in time—

It is too late for scouring to begin

When virtue's ravell'd out, when all the prime