Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRAY AND PROSPER, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: First offer incense, then thy field and meads
Last Line: Pray once, twice pray; and turn thy ground to gold.
Subject(s): Prayer


First offer Incense, then thy field and meads
Shall smile and smell the better by thy beads.
The spangling Dew dreg'd o're the grasse shall be
Turn'd all to Mell, and Manna there for thee.
Butter of Amber, Cream, and Wine, and Oile
Shall run, as rivers, all throughout thy soyl.
Wod'st thou to sincere-silver turn thy mold?
Pray once, twice pray; and turn thy ground to gold.





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