While we sate listening with compassion due.
A pause of silence followed; then, with voice
That did not falter though the heart was moved,[307]
The Wanderer said:—
"One adequate support
For the calamities of mortal life
Exists—one only; an assured belief
That the procession of our fate, howe'er
Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being
Of infinite benevolence and power;