Fragment LVIII: Kurnus, believe it! fortune good or ill

Kurnus, believe it! fortune good or ill
No mortal effort, intellect, or skill
Determine it, but Heaven’s superior will:
We struggle onward, ignorant and blind,
For a result unknown and undesign’d,
Avoiding seeming ills, misunderstood,
Embracing evil as a seeming good ;
In our own plans, unable to.detect
Their final unavoidable effect.
Tormented with unsatisfied desire,
The fortunate to further aims aspire,
Beyond the bounds of mortal happiness ;
Restless and wretched in their own success !
We strive like children, and th’ almighty plan
Controls the froward, weak children of man!