That in their judgment-hall they from the oppress’d

Turn back the tide of ills, retrieving wrongs

With mild accost of [151]soothing eloquence.

On him, the judge and king, when passing forth

Among the city-ways, all reverent look

With a mild worship, as he were a god:

And in [152]the great assembly first is he.

Such is the Muses’ goodly gift to man.

The Muses, and Apollo darting far

The arrows of his splendour, raise on earth