Give rest to a weary world, peace to the age.475

This is the noblest part; by this high path

Is heaven sought. So did Augustus first,

The father of his country, gain the stars,

And as a god is worshiped at the shrines.

Yet he was long by adverse fortune tossed

On land and sea, in battle's deadly chance,480

Until his father's foes he recompensed.

But fortune hath to thee in peaceful guise

Bent her divinity; with unstained hand