Translation of "Contemplant" in English

Quand Jupiter, du haut de la voûte éthérée, / contemplant et la terre et la mer azurée, / et les peuples nombreux dans l'univers épars, / sur la Libye enfin arrête ses regards.

Now came an end of mourning and of woe, / when Jove, surveying from his prospect high / shore, sail-winged sea, and peopled earth below, / stood, musing, on the summit of the sky, / and on the Libyan kingdom fixed his eye.

La nature se rit des souffrances humaines ; Ne contemplant jamais que sa propre grandeur, Elle dispense à tous ses forces souveraines Et garde pour sa part le calme et la splendeur.

Nature laughs at human suffering; Only ever contemplating its own grandeur, it dispenses with all its sovereign forces, and keeps calm and splendor for its own.