Their tunics neatly girded. Next arose

A field thick-set with depth of corn: where some

With sickle reap’d the stalks, their speary heads

Bent, as weigh’d down with pods of swelling grain,

The fruits of Ceres. Others into bands

Gather’d, and threw upon the threshing-floor

The sheaves. And some again hard by were seen

Holding the vine-sickle, who clusters cut

From the ripe vines; which from the vintagers

Others in frails received, or bore away,