"The flesh of man he savoured more than sheep, And this, before he reached the cave, was seen.
Three youths of ours, ere yet he climbed the steep, He are alive, or rather swallowed clean;
Then moved the stone, which closed that cavern deep, And lodged us there. With that, to pasture green His flock he led, as wont, the meads among, Sounding the pipe which at his neck was hung.