For think not thou hast heard all this from me;
My song but echoes what great Nature speaks.
What has she spoken? Thus the goddess spoke,
Thus speaks for ever:—“Place, at nature’s head,
A sovereign, which o’er all things rolls his eye,
Extends his wing, promulgates his commands,
But, above all, diffuses endless good;
To whom, for sure redress, the wrong’d may fly;
The vile, for mercy; and the pain’d, for peace;
By whom, the various tenants of these spheres, 2030