And where the shelving banks to shallows fall,

Drink at the rippling water one and all,

Nor back return till they have drawn their fill.

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‘I will command a thornbush, that it stoop

Over some ram that steppeth by in peace,

And him in all its prickles firmly coop,

Making thee seizure of his golden fleece;

So without peril of his angry horns

Shalt thou be quit: for he upon the thorns