Troop to his wine-vats in fair summer-time.

Yea, all these acres wise Augéas owns,

These corn-clad uplands and these orchards green,

Far as yon ledges whence the cataracts leap.

Here do we haunt, here toil, as is the wont

Of labourers in the fields, the livelong day.

But prythee tell me thou—so shalt thou best

Serve thine own interests—wherefore art thou here?

Seeking Augéas, or mayhap some slave

That serves him? I can tell thee and I will