frisco: Unless you know exactly what to look for, you probably shouldn't be looking in the first place. I mean no offense here; I learned the lesson the hard way during Thingfish's last riddle(the details of which I won't go into now, although Thingfish knows what I'm talking about).

It's good that you're doing your best to help, but as I said, unless you know what to look for, it'll probably not do much good, other than to frustrate you and please Thingfish.

Anyway, back to the last verse. The first thing I have to ask is whether or not my interpretation of the second line is in fact correct. To remind you, I surmised that it is basically a fancy Shakespearean way of saying "We want our troubles(tears and woe) to go away". That seems to be the only option I can see. I can find no indications that it is a direct reference to anything in any case, but I may have missed something.

The second thing is whether the order of the lines is as it should be. What I mean is, could the two lines be construed as saying that "all our tears and woe should go away between conscience caught and more relative grounds", or should it definitely be read in the order it is written in?

Any hints or even answers to these questions will hopefully help me get the gist of what the lines mean.