The Black Riders & Other Lines/A man toiled on a burning road

A man toiled on a burning road,

Never resting.

Once he saw a fat, stupid ass

Grinning at him from a green place.

The man cried out in rage,

"Ah! Do not deride me, fool!

I know you --

All day stuffing your belly,

Burying your heart

In grass and tender sprouts:

It will not suffice you."

But the ass only grinned at him from the green place.