The final four stanzas pay tribute to 'honest' Allan Ramsay's revival of Scottish poetry and his influence on pastoral.

"And I can sing, as once upon a time Theban Amphion used to sing when he was calling home the cows on Attic Aracynthus." Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Passionate Shepherd, from the Pastoral ...

I will take up my slender reed and practise the music of the countryside. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Song of Silenus, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, ...