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Nor lightly should we estimate The Hand which rules it so. Nor idly seek to penetrate What angels may not know.

Enough that with a righteous will, In this disjointed scene, The upright one, through good and ill, Will be as he hath been.

And should a ribald multitude Repay with hate his love, He still can smile : man’s ways are viewed By Him who rules above.