...topics. I will not forbear, however, the presentation of a single additional instance : " 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." The beauty of this inconceivably beautiful thought, consists in representing...

...lodging, those lines of Herbert will present themselves with peculiar force to his mind : ' Sweet day ! to cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky : The dews shall wei?p thy fall to-night, For thou must die." SJ (3) Herbeft Knonlca. *.'.)S. Markii. *S,...

...bright. The bridil orthe earth and sky : The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must dye ! Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe hu eye : Thy root is ever in its grave. And thou must dye ! Sweet sprinz, full of sweet days and roses,...

...'t is a sigh ; Be prepared, O man, to die ! 174 TO A SKYLARK. VIRTUE. —George Herbert. 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...

...short lyric, headed "Virtue ;" the first tones of which are struck with a master hand : Sweet day I 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 ! The other verses are beautiful, but marred by...

...changing the ludicrous tone of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's. VIRTUE. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The...of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For ilmu must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye:...

...changing the ludicrous tone of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's. VIRTUE. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The...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...

...stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley t Nothing's so dainty-sweet as lovely melancholy. -Ibid. 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...

...good. It was just such a day as William Herbert has made immortal in the following words : " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew will weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die." At my feet flowed the tranquil waters of the superb...

...fervent piety which gave a charm to his life and breathes through all his writings. Virtue. Sweet day 1 . In weak and tender minde, we little know what^ misery this stric dews shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose I whose hue, angry and brave, Bids...