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550 and full of anxious care. And you my ministers, teach me how to do right." 1

The praise of a good king and a happy reign, where Final ode. the people are held in respect, and justice is impartially rendered and without excess, and the building of an ancestral temple gives a home where the royal tablet shall for ever abide, fitly closes this dedication of ancient history and ideal faith to the filial piety of a race. This fourth and last Book places the seal of religion on common life and simple sentiment, embalmed in the strains of thirty centuries ago.

1 B. IV., PT. i. iii. i. a, 3.