O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas Terrarum caelique sator qui tempus ab aevo Ire iubes stabilisque manens das cuncta moveri, Quem non externae pepulerunt fingere causae Materiae fluitantis opus, verum insita summi Forma boni livore carens, tu cuncta superno Ducis ab exemplo, pulchrum pulcherrimus ipse Mundum mente gerens similique in imagine formans Perfectasque iubens perfectum absolvere partes.
O you who in perpetual order govern the universe, Creator of heaven and earth, who bid time ever move, And resting still, grant motion to all else; Whom no external causes drove to make Your work of flowing matter,a but the form Within yourself of the highest good, ungrudging; from a heavenly pattern You draw out all things, and being yourself most fair, A fair world in your mind you bear, and forming it In the same likeness, bid it being perfect to complete itself In perfect parts.
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