<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Employment (I)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If as a flower doth spread and die, <br>Thou wouldst extend me to some good, <br>Before I were by frost's extremity<br>Nipt in the bud; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sweetness and the praise were thine; <br>But the extension and the room, <br>Which in thy garland I should fill, were mine<br>At thy great doom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For as thou dost impart thy grace, <br>The greater shall our glory be.<br>The measure of our joys is in this place, <br>The stuff with thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me not languish then, and spend <br>A life as barren to thy praise, <br>As is the dust, to which that life doth tend, <br>But with delays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things are busy; only I<br>Neither bring honey with the bees, <br>Nor flowers to make that, nor the husbandry<br>To water these.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am no link of thy great chain, <br>But all my company is a weed.<br>Lord place me in thy consort; give one strain<br>To my poor reed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Herbert">George Herbert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396306" data-title="Employment (I) de George Herbert" data-description="If as a flower doth spread and die, Thou wouldst extend me to some good, Before I were by frost's extremity Nipt in the bud; The sweetness and the praise were thine; But the extension and the room, Which in thy garland I should fill, were mi..."></div> </div> </div>

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