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, soldier) is praying to god to bring an end to the (widespread plague, raging fire, on-going war, poverty).