...instance of this juxtaposition of beauty and defect may be seen in the well known little poem entitled ' VIRTUE. ' Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright,...of the earth and sky : The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. ' Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his...

...interposition yf the three following stanzas of Herbert's: VIRTUE. Sweet day, to cool, BO calm, 10 bright. uch by the eitemal occasion as from the active quality of the to-night. For Ihou mint dye ! Sweet rorc, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rain gazer wipe hid eye...

...and natural, as the last is harsh and artificial: VIRTUE. Sweet Day, to eool, so «Urn, ю bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet Rose, who» hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,...

...altered two words, and has published it as his own : 1. " Sweet day ! so calm, so pure, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night — For thou must die ! " Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe...

...our prayers. GOODNESS IMPERISHABLE. HERBERT. XVII. SWEET Day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to night, For thou, alas ! must die. Sweet Rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye ; Thy root is ever...

...door, Not in his parlor ; banqueting the poor, — And, among those, his soul. Ufrtue. SWEET Day ! so cool, so calm, so bright ; The bridal of the earth and sky : The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; — For thou must die. Sweet Rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe.his...

...arms of love ! " END OF PART THE SECOND. STANZAS. " All things perish save virtue." " SWEET morn — so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die." • " Sweet rose " — whose fragrance now I crave, To glad my sense...

...; But all my company is as a weed ; Lord, place me in Thy concert, give one strain To my poor reed. VIRTUE. Sweet Day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The Bridal of the earth and sky, The dew must weep thy fall to-night, And thou must die : Sweet Rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bid the rash...

...The subtle motions we forget the while. SIR JOHN DAVIES. 1570—1626. PERISHING BEAUTIES. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593—1632. Time is the herald of Trueth, and Trueth...

...piety which gave a charm to his life and breathes through all his writings. Virtue. Sweet day ! во L/ `# T / B q :U:<è¢ Q Ka 0 w3nr yu dews shall weep thy full to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids...