Classic Poem

El Sembrador

All are solicitous who grounds possess
To Knowe
Both when, and how to sowe
That promise may to them the most increas

And by the severall seasons; Change, or Waine,
Full, or
Increase; to stir them for
What might be properest of evry graine

Nor doe they search soe deep as for a mine
Of Gould
Yet what's the fittest mould
For evry seed, can readily define

And doth not Great neglect and slouth appeer
In these
Whom Barly, Wheat, Rie, Pease
Afect alone, in being cheap or deer

Whilst that the fallowes of their harts untilld
Noe more
Can promise than before
To be with Cockle thoughts and darnell filld

For when the Bells doe seem all in to chime
They'l say
This is some Holyday
Soe never frame a work unto the time

All that they pray, or heer, or read, or doe
Shall be
Choak't with the Briery
Cares of this world which they are slaves unto

Before the Reverend Preacher doth devide
His Text
Some one soon tell'st the next
Yett's robb'd of it; for't falls by th'highwayes side

An Other getts a Point by th'tag, and may
Goe on
Till Persecution
Declare him Niobe: then He must stay.

As when a Soyle's prepard with art and care
The Hind
Such Crops doth allwayes find
As to's endeavours answerable are

Soe let our Harts be throughly wed of Sin
And then
They'l prove good ground again
And bring us more than thousand proffites in.