Probation

Probation - A single bud set in a tiny twig, by an operation of a moment, will determine the character and products of the future tree, through a long course of years.  So this fleeting moment of life sets in the soul the germ of eternal being, whose matured fruits shall be the holiness and joys of heaven, or the guilt and woes of hell.

Sweet is the music of the lute to him who has never heard the rattle of his own children.