human
Produce a detailed written description of a uplifting scene outside town with a river, barges, oxen, and polemen.
assistant
The river bends slightly west here, and your path verges on the low embankment. The blue currents carry a wide range of river traffic southwards downstream. Barges straining their way upstream, urged on by polemen or dragged by teams of oxen along the shore. The glistening surface of the water and the bright view of the town on the eastern shore is a welcome sight, compared to the murky shadows looming farther west down the street.