“The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”

—  Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 227.

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