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read the excerpt from annus mirabilis by john dryden and complete the sentence that follows.
o god, said he, thou patron of my days,
guide of my youth in exile and distress!
who me, unfriended, brought'st by wondrous ways,
the kingdom of my fathers to possess:
be thou my judge, with what unwearied care
since have labour'd for my people's good;
to bind the bruises of a civil war,
and stop the issues of their wasting blood.
thou who hast taught me to forgive the ill,
and recompense, as friends, the good misled;
if mercy be a precept of thy will,
return that mercy on thy servant's head.
or if my heedless youth has stepp'd astray,
too soon forgetful of thy gracious hand;
on me alone thy just displeasure lay,
but take thy judgments from this mourning land.
in the above lines, the (king, poet, common man, or soldier)
is praying to god to bring an end to the (widespread plague, raging fire, on-going war, or poverty)