Contract into a span.
So strength first made a way;
The beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure:
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that alone of all his treasure
Rest in the bottom lay.
For if I should (said he)
Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:
So both should losers be.
Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness:
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.
The second line contradicts the first. Herbert creates a  paradox  — man can have his rest but ‘with repining restlessness’. It mirrors the challenge set in the Garden of Eden, when God forbade Adam and Eve to eat  the fruit of the tree of knowledge . When they succumbed to temptation they were punished. Here the punishment is eternal restlessness.