O happy herse!

Cease now, my Muse, now cease thy sorrows' source,

O joyful verse!

"Why wail we then? why weary we the gods with plaints,

As if some evil were to her betight?

She reigns a goddess now among the saints,

That whilome was the saint of shepheards light,

And is installed now in heavens' height,

I see thee, blessed soul! I see

Walk in Elysian fields so free.