Whom fate controls with adamantine sway?

O ruler of the spheres!

Jove! Jove! enthroned immortally on high,

Our supplication hear!

Nor plunge in bitterest woes

Him, who nor footstep moves, nor lifts his eye

But as a child, which only knows

Its father to revere.

IL CONTE DI CARMAGNOLA;

A TRAGEDY.