For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

CXXIII

Shall we never wean ourselves — shall we never heed the teachings of Philosophy (unless perchance they have been sounding in our ears like and enchanter’s drone): —

This World is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends — first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each.

CXXIV

Nor did the hero(15) weep and lament at leaving his children orphans.