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Rest Refreshes

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Lay by the good a while; a resting field
Will, after ease, a richer harvest yield;
Trees this year bear: next, they their wealth withhold:
Continual reaping makes a land wax old.

Published in Hesperides
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