Virtue

George Herbert * Track #64 On The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Virtue by George Herbert

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George Herbert

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Herbert employs diverse images of the passing beauty of earthly things to emphasize the lasting beauty of the virtuous soul in the Last Judgment.

The rhyme works steadily, with the repetition of the last line’s “die” substituted by a new set of rhymes in the last stanza:

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Virtue Annotated

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright
The bridal of the earth and sky:
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For thou must die.

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave,
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eyes:
Thy root is ever in its grave,
And thou must die.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie:
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.

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