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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2765323The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
Upon Man
1898Alfred Pollard

393. LAR'S PORTION AND THE POET'S PART.

At my homely country-seat
I have there a little wheat,
Which I work to meal, and make
Therewithal a holy cake:
Part of which I give to Lar,
Part is my peculiar.

Peculiar, his own property.