Too much of good's main tribute! But our main

Tough-tendoned mandrake-monster—purge the field

Of him for once and all? It follows plain

Who set him there to grow beholds repealed

His primal law: his ordinance proves vain:

And what beseems a king who cannot reign,

But to drop sceptre valid arm should wield?

VI

"Still there 's a parable"—retorts my friend—

"Shows agriculture with a difference!