These when the careless wretch the treasure threw
Into that stream, did all they could devise,
What with their talons some, and some with beak,
To save some names, but find themselves too weak.
"Only two swans sustain'd so great a poise,
In spite of him that sought them all to drown,
These two do still take up the names they list,
And bare them safe away, and never misst.
"They caught them ere they to the stream arriv'd,
Then went they, with the names they had recover'd,