Cowper.
[266] In baskets thus up-piled.] Homer Il. xviii. Shield of Achilles:
There also, laden with its fruit, he form’d
A vineyard all of gold: purple he made
The clusters: and the vines supported stood
By poles of silver, set in even rows.
The trench he colour’d sable, and around
Fenced it with tin. One only path it show’d:
By which the gatherers, when they stripp’d the vines,
Pass’d and repass’d. There youths and maidens blithe