He pray’d, to Jove the pray’r ascends;
His ear to pray’rs like these He lends.
“I (said the god) thy wish fulfil,
Henceforth, be virtuous—if you will
Be man—to him that pow’r I give;
Go, and by past experience live.”
Transform’d again with lifted eyes,
The man his story thus applies:—
“From what appears, how little do we know
What others feel of happiness or woe!