Consolator most mild, the promis'd one advancing,
With gentle hand extended, the mightier1 God am I,
Foretold2 by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies
and poems,
From this side, lo! the Lord Christ gazes - lo! Hermes I -
lo! mine is Hercules' face,
All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb