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John Dryden
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“She took the coleworts which her husband got From his own ground (a small well-water’d spot); She stripp’d the stalks of all their leaves; the best She cull’d, and then with handy care she dress’d.”
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“But when the western winds with vital pow’r Call forth the tender grass and budding flow’r, Men, at the last, produce in open air Both flocks, and send them to their summer’s fare.”
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“Begin when the slow waggoner descends, Nor cease your sowing till midwinter ends.”
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“For sundry foes the rural realm surround; The field-mouse builds her garner under ground: For gather’d grain the blind laborious mole, In winding mazes, works her hidden hole.”
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“Where the vales with violets once were crown’d, Now knotty burs and thorns disgrace the ground.”
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“Most have found A husky harvest from the grudging ground.”
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“For flax and oats will burn the tender field, And sleepy poppies harmful harvests yield.”
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“But various are the ways to change the state, To plant, to bud, to graft, to inoculate.”
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“The peasant, innocent of all these ills, With crooked ploughs the fertile fallow tills, And the round year with daily labour fills.”
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“To his county farm the fool confined; Rude work well suited with a rustic mind.”
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“Thou hop’st with sacrifice of oxen slain To compass wealth, and bribe the god of gain To give thee flocks and herds, with large increase; Fool! to expect them from a bullock’s grease.”
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“Apollo check’d my pride, and bade me feed My fatt’ning flocks, nor dare beyond the reed.”
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“Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flow’rs, her trees with precious tears, Her second harvests.”
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“Suffering not the yellow beards to rear, He tramples down the spikes, and intercepts the ear.”
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“Ev’n when they sing at ease in full content, Insulting o’er the toil they underwent, Yet still they find a future task remain, To turn the soil.”
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“To dress the vines new labour is required, Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.”
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“Give me, ye gods, the product of one field, That so I neither may be rich nor poor; And haying just enough, not covet more.”
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“All was common, and the fruitful earth Was free to give her unexacted birth.”
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“Their morning milk the peasants press at night; Their evening milk before the rising light.”
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“The peaceful peasant to the wars is prest, The fields lie fallow in inglorious rest.”
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“Where the tender rinds of trees disclose Their shooting germs, a swelling knot there grows; Just in that place a narrow slit we make, Then other buds from bearing trees we take; Inserted thus, the wounded rind we close.”
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“Your farm requites your pains, Though rushes overspread the neighb’ring plains.”
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“Rocks lie cover’d with eternal snow; Thin herbage in the plains, and fruitless fields.”
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“Uneasy still within these narrow bounds, Thy next design is on thy neighbour’s grounds: His crop invites, to full perfection grown; Thy own seems thin, because it is thy own.”
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“T’ unload the branches, or the leaves to thin That suck the vital moisture of the vine.”
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“Yet then this little spot of earth well till’d, A num’rous family with plenty fill’d, The good old man and thrifty housewife spent Their days in peace and fatten’d with content; Enjoy’d the dregs of life, and lived to see A long descending healthful progeny.”
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“The soil, with fatt’ning moisture fill’d, Is clothed with grass, and fruitful to be till’d; Such as in fruitful vales we view from high, Which dripping rocks, not rowling streams supply.”
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“First, with assiduous care from winter keep, Well fother’d in the stalls, thy tender sheep; Then spread with straw the bedding of thy fold, With fern beneath, to fend the bitter cold.”
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“In vain the barns expect their promised load; Nor barns at home, nor ricks are heap’d abroad.”
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“At harvest-home, and on the shearing day, When he should thanks to Pan and Pales pay.”
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“Ah that your business had been mine, To pen the sheep.”
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“Root up wild olives from thy labour’d lands.”
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“Nor is the profit small the peasant makes, Who smooths with harrow, or who pounds with rakes, The crumbling clods.”
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“Be mindful With iron teeth of rakes and prongs to move The crusted earth.”
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“Let thy hand supply the pruning-knife, And crop luxuriant stragglers.”
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“Bid the laborious hind, Whose harden’d hands did long in tillage toil, Neglect the promised harvest of the soil.”
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“The wiser madman did for virtue toil A thorny, or at least a barren, soil.”
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“Here the marshy grounds approach your fields, And there the soil a stony harvest yields.”
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“While the reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.”
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“Did we for these barbarians plant and sow, On these, on these our happy fields bestow?”
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“If your care to wheat alone extend, Let Maia with her sisters first descend, Before you trust in earth your future hope, Or else expect a listless, lazy crop.”
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“Some through ambition, or through thirst of gold, Have slain their brothers, and their country sold.”
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“Those who to empire by dark paths aspire, Still plead a call to what they most desire.”
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“One world sufficed not Alexander’s mind; Coop’d up he seem’d, in earth and seas confined.”
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“Too truly Tamerlane’s successors they; Each thinks a world too little for his sway.”
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“O diadem, thou centre of ambition, Where all its different lines are reconciled; As if thou wert the burning glass of glory.”
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“No toil, no hardship can restrain Ambitious man inured to pain; The more confined, the more he tries, And at forbidden quarry flies.”
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“With joy th’ ambitious youth his mother heard, And, eager, for the journey soon prepared; He longs the world beneath him to survey, To guide the chariot, and to give the day.”
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“Why does Antony dream out his hours, And tempts not fortune for a noble day?”
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“To cure their mad ambition, they were sent To rule a distant province, each alone: What could a careful father more have done?”
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