Moral and political fables ancient and modern. Done into Measurd Prose intermixd with Ryme. By Dr. Walter Pope |
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Fab. XXXI. Jupiter and the Farmer. |
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Fab. XXXI. Jupiter and the Farmer.
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Cretan Yeoman hird a Farm of Jove,
On these Conditions. Jove obligd himself
To send what Weather's Tenant should desire,
To Rain, to Shine, to Blow from any Coast:
And he, in lieu of Rent, was bound to pay
Half of the annual product of the Land.
The Farmer cultivates the Ground with care,
And Jove kept touch, but when the Harvest came,
It answerd not the Hopes o'th' greedy Swain,
Nothing but Husks appeard empty of Grain.
Now y'are convincd, Jove to his Tenant said,
What stress upon your Wisdom can be laid,
Take my Advice, try it another Year,
Do you plow, sow, harrow, and weed the Ground,
And let me send what Seasons I think fit.
He accepts the proffer, seals another Lease,
And the next Year reapd a prodigious Crop,
That filld his heart with Joy, and Barns with Corn
He never after prescribd Laws to Jove,
Nor was concernd when't froze, or snowd, or raind,
But thought that weather best which God ordaind
On these Conditions. Jove obligd himself
To send what Weather's Tenant should desire,
To Rain, to Shine, to Blow from any Coast:
And he, in lieu of Rent, was bound to pay
Half of the annual product of the Land.
The Farmer cultivates the Ground with care,
And Jove kept touch, but when the Harvest came,
It answerd not the Hopes o'th' greedy Swain,
Nothing but Husks appeard empty of Grain.
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What stress upon your Wisdom can be laid,
Take my Advice, try it another Year,
Do you plow, sow, harrow, and weed the Ground,
And let me send what Seasons I think fit.
He accepts the proffer, seals another Lease,
And the next Year reapd a prodigious Crop,
That filld his heart with Joy, and Barns with Corn
He never after prescribd Laws to Jove,
Nor was concernd when't froze, or snowd, or raind,
But thought that weather best which God ordaind
The Moral.
Do thy endeavour, and leave th' Event to th' Gods. | Moral and political fables | |