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John Dryden
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“These I wielded while my bloom was warm, Ere age unstrung my nerves, or time o’er-snow’d my head.”
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“A look so pale no quartane ever gave; My dwindled legs seem crawling to a grave.”
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“These are the effects of doting age, Vain doubts, and idle cares, and over caution.”
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“No fences parted fields, nor marks nor bounds Distinguish’d acres of litigious grounds.”
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“Apulian farms, for the rich soil admired, And thy large fields, where falcons may be tired.”
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“Much labour is required in trees; Well must the ground be digg’d, and better dress’d, New soil to make, and meliorate the rest.”
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“Of the same soil their nursery prepare With that of their plantation, lest the tree Translated should not with the soil agree.”
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“Better gleanings their worn soil can boast Than the crab vintage of the neighb’ring coast,”
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“When the Nile from Pharian fields is fled, The fat manure with heay’nly fire is warm’d.”
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“That the spent earth may gather heart again, And, better’d by cessation, bear the grain.”
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“Next, fenced with hedges and deep ditches round, Exclude th’ encroaching cattle from the ground.”
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“The crooked plough, the share, the tow’ ring height Of wagons, and the cart’s unwieldy weight; These all must be prepared.”
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“’Tis good for arable; a glebe that asks Tough teams of oxen; and laborious tasks.”
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“When the fiery suns too fiercely play, And shriyell’d herbs on with’ring stems decay, The wary ploughman, on the mountain’s brow, Undams his wat’ry stores; huge torrents flow; Temp’ring the thirsty fever of the field.”
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“Pales no longer swell’d the teeming grain, Nor Phœbus fed his oxen on the plain.”
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“Quintius here was born, Whose shining ploughshare was in furrows worn, Met by his trembling wife, returning home, And rustically joy’d, as chief of Rome.”
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“From ploughs and harrows sent to seek renown, They fight in fields, and storm the shaken town.”
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“The royal husbandman appear’d, And plough’d, and sow’d, and till’d; The thorns he rooted out, the rubbish clear’d, And blest th’ obedient field.”
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“Men plough with oxen of their own Their small paternal field of corn.”
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“The field is spacious I design to sow, With oxen far unfit to draw the plough.”
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“No plough shall hurt the glebe, no pruning-hook the vine.”
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“The teeming earth, yet guileless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow.”
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“The sweating steers unharness’d from the yoke Bring back the crooked plough.”
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“An ox that waits the coming blow, Old and unprofitable to the plough.”
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“Who can cease to admire The ploughman consul in his coarse attire?”
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“The lab’ring swain Scratch’d with a rake a furrow for his grain, And cover’d with his hand the shallow seed again.”
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“His corn and cattle were his only care, And his supreme delight a country fair.”
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“He burns the leaves, the scorching blast invades The tender corn, and shrivels up the blades,”
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“Thou king of horned floods, whose plenteous urn Suffices fatness to the fruitful corn, Shalt share my morning song and evening vows.”
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“No fruitful crop the sickly fields return; But oats and darnel choke the rising corn.”
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“Tough thistles choked the fields, and kill’d the corn, And an unthrifty crop of weeds was born.”
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“The bearded corn ensued From earth unask’d; nor was that earth renew’d.”
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“Your hay it is mow’d, and your corn it is reap’d; Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap’d; Come, my boys, come, Come, my boys, come, And merrily roar out harvest-home.”
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“Moist earth produces corn and grass, but both Too rank and too luxuriant in their growth. Let not my land so large a promise boast, Lest the lank ears in length of stem be lost.”
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“Delve of convenient depth your threshing floor; With temper’d clay then fill and face it o’er.”
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“In vain the hinds the threshing floor prepare, And exercise their flails in empty air.”
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“If a wood of leaves o’ershade the tree, In vain the hind shall vex the threshing floor, For empty chaff and straw will be thy store.”
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“On a short pruning-hook his head reclines, And studiously surveys his gen’rous vines.”
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“She in pens his flocks will fold.”
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“In shallow furrows vines securely grow.”
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“The vineyard must employ thy sturdy steer To turn the glebe; besides thy daily pain To break the clods, and make the surface plain.”
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“Some steep their seeds, and some in cauldrons boil O’er gentle fires; the exuberant juice to drain, And swell the flatt’ring husks with fruitful grain.”
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“Mark well the flow’ring almonds in the wood: If od’rous blooms the bearing branches load, The glebe will answer to the sylvan reign: Great heats will follow, and large crops of grain.”
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“The low’ring spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and bearded grain.”
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“Oft the drudging ass is driven with toil; Returning late and loaden home with gain Of barter’d pitch, and handmills for the grain.”
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“In the sun your golden grain display, And thrash it out and winnow it by day.”
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“We may know And when to reap the grain and when to sow, Or when to fell the furzes.”
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“You who supply the ground with seeds of grain, And you who swell those seeds with kindly rain.”
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“When continued rain The lab’ring husband in his house restrain, Let him forecast his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.”
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“And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain, Suck’d by the spungy clouds from off the main: The lofty skies at once come pouring down, The promised crop and golden labours drown.”
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