The Philistine + 

The cricket to the corn-crake came one day, + 

Shivering, yet buzzing in his wanton way, + 

And said: “I’m slain + 

By hunger, brother, turn thou not from me; + 

’Tis winter, and I only beg of thee + 

A little grain.” + 

The corn-crake grinned and said in tone sublime: + 

“Where wert thou hidden in the harvest time, + 

Thou dinning drone? + 

Why didst thou not come with us to the fields + 

To gather something for thy winter meals + 

Of what had grown?” + 

“O, I was entertaining with my rhymes + 

The vineyards, and the fig trees, and the thymes + 

The summer long.” + 

“No then,” replied the corn-crake, “not a seed + 

Have I for such as thou; go home and feed + 

Upon thy Song.” + 