A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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The Sluggard and the Sun.
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The Sluggard and the Sun.
Snoring in bed a sluggard lies,
When beams the Sun upon his eyes:
Stretching and in a pett he wakes,
And this expostulation makes.
When beams the Sun upon his eyes:
Stretching and in a pett he wakes,
And this expostulation makes.
What pleasure gives it to molest,
And hinder quiet people's rest;
Thy bed perhaps thou canst not keep
But must thou then disturb our sleep?
And hinder quiet people's rest;
Thy bed perhaps thou canst not keep
But must thou then disturb our sleep?
No harm, the Sun replies, was meant;
A friendly office you resent;
This fleeting life is quickly o'er,
Then let me shine in vain no more:
Arise and husband well thy span,
All creatures are awake but Man.
A friendly office you resent;
This fleeting life is quickly o'er,
Then let me shine in vain no more:
Arise and husband well thy span,
All creatures are awake but Man.
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