With grove and field and garden interspersed;

Their town, and foodful region for support

Against the pressure of beleaguering war.

"Chaldean Shepherds, ranging trackless fields,

Beneath the concave of unclouded skies

Spread like a sea, in boundless solitude,

Looked on the polar star, as on a guide

And guardian of their course, that never closed

His stedfast eye. The planetary Five[FE]

With a submissive reverence they beheld;