I used to worship the gods grudgingly,
\nand not often, a wanderer expert
\nin a crazy wisdom, but now I am forced
\nto sail back and once again go over<\/p>\n
the course I left behind. For Jupiter
\nwho usually parts the clouds with the fire
\nof his lightning has driven his horses
\nand his flying chariot across a cloudless sky,<\/p>\n
shaking the dull earth and winding rivers,
\nthe Styx and the fearsome halls of hateful Taenarus,
\nand the Atlantean limits
\nof the world. God has the power<\/p>\n
to exchange high and low, to humble the great,
\nand bring forward the obscure. With a shrill cry
\nrapacious Fortune snatches the crown from one head
\nand delights to lay it on another.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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