An Admonition addressed in the Spring to the Officers who presided over Agriculture

Ho there, ye ministers and officers!
With reverent care attend, ye to your tasks.
Ye have your full directions from the king;
These ponder well and inwardly digest.
Ho there, ye stays and props (of husbandry)!

Now are we in the waning days of Spring:
What want we more, than how to put to use
The fallows of the second and third year?
How grand a show have we of wheat and barley!
Soon shall we have bright (waving fields) of these.

The bright and glorious God, in giving them,
Doth give us promise of a prosperous year.
Call out our husbandmen, bid one and all
Be ready with the mattock and the hoe.
Anon we'll see the sickle in the grain.