Response to Readers - After Apple-Picking

One of the students spoke about how the owner of the apple orchard was getting older and wished to quit the business of growing apples. The student claimed that the person who owned the orchard might be close to death, heaven, or not yet there.
In lines 28- 34 Robert Frost states that
"For I have had too much of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all that struck earth, No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble. Went surely to the cider heap."

I think these lines mean that the orchard owner wishes to not pick any more fruit because he has picked enough in his life time. He explains that there would still be much more fruit to pick even if he was dead, whether it be rotten or ripe. He wishes to fade away quickly like the rotten fruit, but not to fall off the ladder while picking the fruit and die. He wants to fade away peacefully and gracefully.

He states that "One can see what will trouble this sleep of mine, Whateversleep it is.
Were he not gone. ...Long sleep as I descibe is coming on. Or just some human sleep."

These lines describe how he wishes to die quietly in his sleep.