At which there are none who have been so adept—

That Jabel had journeyed some hundreds of miles

With a herd of slick cattle to win the maid’s smiles,

When she took the whole herd, but she turned him away,

In the Ante-Deluvian Day.

Then Jubel came playing a harp made of gold,

Which he gave the fair maiden a moment to hold,

And leaving, he felt it would be a great wrong

If he then would ungallantly take it along,

Still, for one hundred years he remembered, they say,