The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme,

The young men’s vision, and the old men’s dream.”

“Auspicious prince, at whose nativity Some royal planet rul’d the southern sky; Thy longing country’s darling and desire; Their cloudy pillar and their guardian fire; Their second Moses, whose extended wand Divides the seas, and shows the promised land; Whose dawning day, in every distant age, Has exercised the sacred prophet’s rage; The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme, The young men’s vision, and the old men’s dream.”

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The Tenth and last “cloister of Malebolge,” where