Lxxvi. God's Direction To Be Implored On Every State Poem by Ellis Walker

In every action which you undertake,
With great
Cleanthes
this petition make:

Lead me, O Jove! And thou, O pow'rful fate,
In ev'ry enterprize, in ev'ry state,
As you determine, for I must obey
The wise injunctions which you on me lay:
For should I at your dread decrees repine,
And strive your sacred orders to decline,
I should but labour wickedly in vain,
And struggle with an everlasting chain,
And, after all, be dragg'd along with pain.