And casts the mighty from their highest spheres:

With ease of human grandeur shrouds the ray:

With ease on abject darkness pours the day:

Straightens the crooked: grinds to dust the proud;

Thunderer on high, whose dwelling is the cloud.

Now bend thine eyes from heaven: behold and hear:

Rule thou the laws in righteousness and fear:

While I to Perses’ heart would fain convey

The truths of knowledge which inspire my lay.

Two Strifes on earth of soul divided rove: