1. My field today is happy

    with the Prime Minister.

  2. He passed over it amid the cavalcade,

    with the prophets’ greeting of peace.

  3. All the shade and water

    within it nearly ran after him.

  4. And the fruits of the

    earth bore the cost of the hired laborers.

  5. For they are a safeguard when prices fall,

    and a relief when prices rise.

  6. He freed it—the man who freed my people

    from the creditors’ chains—

  7. and spared it a forced sale

    while it was in the courts’ marketplace.

  8. It left the Bank of Ernes—

    t for the Bank of Heaven,

  9. bearing the debt lightly

    at the appointed times of repayment.

  10. And I shall remain, through my integrity,

    in the register of the rich.

  11. I possess the farmer’s endurance

    and the poets’ imagination.

Sol 6.1