text:  In one of their first excursions Madeleine Deshoulieres impatient to see some of the scenes so gracefully described by her mother asked if they were really not to encounter a single shepherd on the banks of the Lignon? Madame Deshoulieres perceived at no great distance a herdsman and cow-girl playing at chuckfarthing; and after a pause replied-- "Behold upon the verdant grass so sweet The shepherdess is at her shepherd's feet! Her arms are bare her foot is small and white The very oxen wonder at the sight; Her locks half bound half floating in the air And gown as light as those that satyrs wear