Told, also, how the voiceless heavens declare
God’s glory; and acknowledging thy share
In that blest charge; let us—without offence
To aught of highest, holiest, influence— 45
Receive whatever good ’tis given thee to dispense.
May sage and simple, catching with one eye
The moral intimations of the sky,
Learn from thy course, where’er their own be taken,
“To look on tempests, and be never shaken”;[20] 50
To keep with faithful step the appointed way