Edmund Spenser: Sleep After Toil

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"He there does now enjoy eternall rest And happy ease, which thou doest want and crave And further from it daily wanderest: What if some little payne the passage have That makes frayle flesh to feare the bitter wave? Is not short payne well borne, that bringes long ease And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.'