Travail

"Between the dark and the daylight
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupation
That is known as (the tortuous hour.)
 ...
And there will I keep you forever.
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin
And moulder in dust away."

"There, but for ..."

...not  but for  the grace of God--but for the potential humiliation of a missing-vulnerable-adult alert----go I.