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OMNIA SOMNIA by JOSHUA SYLVESTER

Poet Analysis

First Line: GO, SILLY WORM, DRUDGE, TRUDGE, AND TRAVELL
Last Line: TO PROVE THY DAYS BUT DREAM AND SLUMBER.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
Go, silly worm, drudge, trudge, and travel,
Despising pain,
So thou may'st gain
Some honour, or some golden gravel:
But Death the while (to fill his number)
With sudden call
Takes thee from all,
To prove thy days but dream and slumber.



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