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LINES 6 to 8 then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Meaning- Having linked death with rest and sleep in the previous sentence, the speaker proceeds to the next stage in the logic of the poem's argument. If rest and sleep bring people pleasure, then death must be even more pleasurable, being a kind of heightened and intensified version of them. Briefly, then, the speaker is actively praising death for bringing "the big sleep" to people. Line 6 uses alliterative /m/ sounds to reinforce the idea that death is basically sleep-plus, creating a sonic sense of bounty and abundance. Lines 7 and 8 then suggest that it is the best people on earth who often die earliest, perhaps hinting that they have been chosen by God for their reward of heavenly eternal life. Line 8 modifies the idea of death as rest by clarifying that the speaker only intends the comparison to apply to the physical body. The "bones" of the "best men" are their physical selves—their "corporality"—and it is only these that are laid to rest in death. "Bones" is therefore a synecdoche for the human body. In a more literal sense, though, bones are indeed all that remains after a body goes through the processes of decay that come with death; for the speaker, bones are the inanimate leftovers of life on earth—but life on earth is not what's important to this poem. It is the "soul's delivery"—the arrival in the afterlife—that underpins the poem's entire argument. Death is really a form of transition from temporary life to eternal life. The poem plays on this, with the word "delivery" hinting at a kind of birth, rather than death.