The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Pray and Prosper

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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2763252The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
Pray and Prosper
1898Alfred Pollard

370. PRAY AND PROSPER.

First offer incense, then thy field and meads
Shall smile and smell the better by thy beads.
The spangling dew, dredg'd o'er the grass, shall be
Turn'd all to mell and manna there for thee.
Butter of amber, cream, and wine, and oil
Shall run, as rivers, all throughout thy soil.
Would'st thou to sincere silver turn thy mould?
Pray once, twice pray, and turn thy ground to gold.

Beads, prayers. Mell, honey. Sincere silver, pure silver.