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RICHES AND POVERTY by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: GOD CO'D HAVE MADE ALL RICH, OR ALL MEN POORE
Last Line: HAD ALL BEEN POORE, WHO HAD HIS BOUNTY SEEN?
Subject(s): WEALTH; RICHES; FORTUNES;
God co'd have made all rich, or all men poore;
But why He did not, let me tell wherefore:
Had all been rich, where then had Patience been?
Had all been poore, who had His Bounty seen?



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