H.M.S. COCKEREL

Quid facial laetas segetes, quo sidere terrain

vertere, Maecenas, ulmisque adiungere vites

conveniat, quae cura bourn, qui cultis

habendo sit peccori, apibus quanta

experientia partis, hinc canere incipiam.

What makes the crops joyous, beneath

what star, Maecenas, it is well to turn

the soil, and wed vines to elms, what

tending the kine need, what care the

herd in breeding, what skill the thrifty

bees-hence shall I beginmy song.

– Virgil

Georgics, Book 1,1-5