...to the warm and fervent piety which gave a charm to his life and breathes through all his writings. Virtue, Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids...

...door, Not in his parlor ; banqueting the poor, — And, among those, his soul. Vfrtue. 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...

...Thou'rt neither fair, nor strong, nor wise, nor rich, young. GEOEGE HEEBEET. BOBS, 1593; DIED, 1632. VIRTUE. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids...

...lines on ' Virtue' already alluded to, to which we shall add a much more elaborate poem on Sunday. VIRTUE. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids...

...memory of George Herbert, and his was the hymn we sang that Sunday at the Catskill Fall. " 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 most die. Sweet rose ! whose hne, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his...

...uncle. Will you repeat them ? MARHAM. Now you must like them, Oliver ; for I do very much. 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...

...memory of George Herbert, and his was the hymn we sang that Sunday at the Catskill Falls. 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 eye;...

...cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; Sweet dews shall weep thy full to-night— For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Bids the rash ga/.er wipe his eye ; Thy root is ever in the grave — And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet...

...in the extreme. The morrow dawned, and it was like all the Sabbath-days ever described in print, ' so cool, so calm, so bright, the bridal of the earth and sky.' The little stream which rolls at the mountain's base before the door was roughened by a susnrring breeze...

...SABBATHS. It was a fine day in autumn,—one that would well answer to Herbert's discription, "Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky." The village pastor was in his pulpit, and the people in goodly numbers were in their pews. The solemn invocation...