Religion
Laying Up Treasure
From Religious Poems
Religion
Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer
Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year
Thy harvests of well-doing, wealth that kings
Nor thieves can take away. When all the things
Thou tallest thine, goods, pleasures, honors fall,
Thou in thy virtue shalt survive them all.
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MLA
Whittier, John Greenleaf. “Laying Up Treasure.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whittier/197/.
Chicago
Whittier, John Greenleaf. “Laying Up Treasure.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whittier/197/.
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