Why the young rancher, irascible, obstinate, belligerent, should invariably defer to the poet, was an inconsistency never to be explained.

这位年轻的农庄主人，脾气急躁，生性固执，动不动喜欢吵架，竟然会始终对这诗人唯命是听，真是一个无从解释的矛盾。