Who plants an olive, but to eat the oil? Reward, we know, is the chief end of toil.
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"Who plants an olive, but to eat the oil?..." by Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English Cavalier poet whose "Hesperides" (1648) contains over 1,200 poems. His carpe diem verse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") and lyric poems celebrate love, beauty, and the passing of time.
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