That all your hard toils will seem truly a pleasure!

“He flits through the orchard, he visits each tree,

The red-flowering peach and the apple’s sweet blossoms;

He snaps up destroyers wherever they be;

And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms;

He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours,

The worms from their webs, where they riot and welter;

His song and his services freely are ours,

And all that he asks is—in summer a shelter.

“The ploughman is pleased when he gleans in his train,