How tame now seems to me this herdsman life, 



Unprofitable too; naught do I here, — 



Naught that can serve good purpose. Why then stay? 



Others could tend these herds as well as I, 



And haply better, for my thoughts are far 



From meads and kine and all the servile round 



Of household duties, the same from year to year, 



Far from the rural dull routine. . 



— Charles Heavysege, " Saul." 



