Or if some monstrous progeny of Tellus

Found thou wast Power and made the high gods jealous

I do not know (I've lost my Lemprière),

Nor if the fate that thereupon befell us

Was for each load of coal two loads of care;

Yet oft I wonder if beyond the Styx

The price of thee is three pounds ten and six.

Sun worshipper am I, and serve the gods

Of stream and meadow and the flowery lea,

Of winding woodways where the loosestrife nods