"Unselfishness, high honour, justice clear,

These three alone give worth to sovereign power.

Yet not for power (power of itself

Is a base burden) but to hold as law

The fiat high, 'Be just and do not fear.'

And because right is right to follow right,

With a serene contempt of consequence."

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And Paris pondered, and I cried, "Oh! Paris,

Give it to Pallas!" But he heard me not,