Where quiv’ring reed-beds rustled, slowly moved.
Four golden shepherds walk’d beside the herd,
By nine swift dogs attended; then amid
The foremost heifers sprang two lions fierce
Upon the lordly bull; he, bellowing loud,
Was dragg’d along, by dogs and youths pursu’d.
The tough bull’s hide they tore, and gorging lapp’d
Th’ intestines and dark blood; with vain attempt
The herdsmen following closely, to th’ attack
Cheer’d their swift dogs; these shunn’d the lions’ jaws,