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I / "There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which,-taken at the flood,"-you know the rest, / And most of us have found it now and then; / At least we think so, though but few have guess'd / The moment, till too late to come again. / But no doubt every thing is for the best- / Of which the surest sign is in the end: / When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
II / There is a tide in the affairs of women / Which, taken at the flood, leads-God knows where: / Those navigators must be able seamen / Whose charts lay down its current to a hair; / Not all the reveries of Jacob Behmen / With its strange whirls and eddies can compare: / Men with their heads reflect on this and that- / But women with their hearts on heaven knows what!