And far beyond her sex and age; ’tis she

Exposes oft the giants’ villany;

And when from a dark cloud with radiant head

Fair Moon emerges, to the rocks they speed

To hide themselves; but soon commence again,

And to their mountain lair bear off amain

The fruits and treasures of the luckless swain.

Then when the husbandman walks o’er the field

At dawn of day, and views his harvest fell’d

And all laid waste, he thinks the nightly frost