Hear Justice, and renounce th’ oppressor’s plea:
This law the wisdom of the god assign’d
To human race and to the bestial kind:
To birds of air and fishes of the wave,
And beasts of earth, devouring instinct gave
In them no justice lives: he bade be known
This better sense to reasoning man alone.
Who from the seat of judgment shall impart
The truths of knowledge utter’d from his heart;
On him the god of all-discerning eye