Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONCE POOR, STILL PENURIOUS, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Goes the world now, it will with thee goe hard
Last Line: Who is penurious, he shall still be poore.
Subject(s): Poverty


Goes the world now, it will with thee goe hard:
The fattest Hogs we grease the more with Lard.
To him that has, there shall be added more;
Who is penurious, he shall still be poore.





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