<p>When, in the sweet and pleasant Month of May,<lb/> We see both Leaves and Blossomes on the Tree,<lb/> And view the Meadowes in their best array,<lb/> We hopefull are a Ioyfull Spring to see;<lb/> Yet, oft, before the following Night be past,<lb/> It chanceth, that a Vapor, or a Frost,<lb/> Doth all those forward bloomings wholly waste;<lb/> And, then, their Sweetnesse and their Beautie's lost.<lb/> Such, is the state of ev'ry mortall Wight:<lb/> In Youth, our Glories, and our Lusts we shew;<lb/> We fill our selves with ev'ry vaine Delight,<lb/> And, will most thinke on that which may insue.<lb/> But, let us learne to heed, as well as know,<lb/> That, Spring doth passe; that, Summer steales away;<lb/> And, that the Flow'r which makes the fairest show,<lb/> E're many Weekes, must wither and decay.<lb/> And, from this Emblem, let each Lab'ring-Swaine<lb/> (In whatsoever course of life it be)<lb/> Take heart, and hope, amidst his daily paine,<lb/> That, of his Travailes, he good fruits shall see.<lb/> The Plow'd and Harrow'd Field, which, to thine eye,<lb/> Seemes like to be the Grave, in which the Seeds<lb/> Shall (without hope of rising) buryed lye,<lb/> Becomes the fruitfull Wombe, where Plenty breeds.<lb/> There, will be Corne, where nought but Mire appeares;<lb/> The Durty Seed, will forme a greenish blade;<lb/> The Blade, will rise to Stemmes with fruitfull Eares;<lb/> Those Eares, will ripen, and be yellow made:<lb/> So, if in honest Hopes, thou persevere,<lb/> A Ioyfull Harvest will at last appeare.<lb/> </p>

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The sun shines down on sheaves of corn

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<p>Those Fields, which yet appeare not so,<lb/> When Harvest comes, will yellow grow.</p>

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