Living
Rest Refreshes.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
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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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Rest Refreshes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/931/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Rest Refreshes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/931/.
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