And whomsoe’er of heavenly-nurtured kings

Jove’s daughters will to honour, looking down

With smiling aspect on his cradled head

They pour a gentle dew upon his tongue:

And words, as honey sweet, drop from his lips.

To him the people look: on him all eyes

Wait awful, who in righteousness discerns

The ways of judgment: in a single breath,

Utter’d with knowledge, ends the mightiest strife,

And all is peace. The wisdom this of kings: