Ovid

“ Meanwhile as often as the bowl was drained it was
refilled of its own will and they see that wines refill themselves:
astonished by the strangeness they are frightened and utter
with supine hands prayers both Baucis and timid Philemon
and beg for forgiveness for the meal, and no preparations.
There was a single goose, the guard of their small house:
whom the owners prepared to sacrifice for the guest gods ”

“ Philemon reveals their joint verdict to the gods:
‘we ask to be priests and watch over your temples,
and since we have spent harmonious years,
let the same hour take us two, nor may I ever see
my wife’s tomb (s) , neither may I be buried by her.’
Fulfillment follows prayer: they were the guardians of the temple,
as long as life was given; weakened by years and old-age
when by chance they were standing before the sacred steps and
discussing the place’s downfall, Baucis [saw] that Philemon was in leaf,
old Philemon saw that Baucis was in leaf. ”

“ They were as far away from the summit as an arrow is able to go once
having been sent: they bent their eyes and see the rest
sunk in the swamp, that only their own roof (s) remain, and
while they marvel at these, while they weep the fates of their own,
that old cottage small even for two owners,
is turned into a temple: pillars replace wooden-props,
and the straw yellowed and golden roofs were seen
and carved doors, and ground covered with marble. ”