Careful Words

wraps (adj.)

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced

That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—

That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour

Serves but to brighten all our future days.

John Brown (1715-1766): Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3.

Var.  By hands unseen the knell is rung;

By fairy forms their dirge is sung.