To whom thus spake the herdsman of the herd,

Pausing a moment from his handiwork:

"Friend, I will solve thy questions, for I fear

The angry looks of Hermes of the roads.

No dweller in the skies is wroth as he,

With him who saith the asking traveller nay.

"The flocks Augéas owns, our gracious lord,

One pasture pastures not, nor one fence bounds.