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REST REFRESHES by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LAY BY THE GOOD A WHILE; A RESTING FIELD
Last Line: CONTINUALL REAPING MAKES A LAND WAX OLD.
Subject(s): REST;
Lay by the good a while; a resting field
Will, after ease, a richer harvest yeild:
Trees this year beare; next, they their wealth with-hold:
Continuall reaping makes a land wax old.



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