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, soilder] is praying to god to bring an end to the [widespread plague, raging fire, ongoing war, poverty] .