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To God (6)

by Robert Herrick, 1647

God gives not only corn for need,
But likewise sup’rabundant seed;
Bread for our service, bread for show,
Meat for our meals, and fragments too:
He gives not poorly, taking some
Between the finger and the thumb;
But for our glut and for our store,
Fine flour press’d down, and running o’er.

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