...a heart that hath waxed old. WILLIAM MOTHEEWELL, 1791-1885. VIRTUE. Sweet day ! 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 ; Thy root is ever in the...

...gaiety, and aspect bright, In each expressive, sums up all delight. HENBY BBOOKE. Firtue. C WEET 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...

...declining sun, — sheds over all A pleasant, farewell smile — And so returns to God. BllTANT. 150 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...

...sweetness of versification, which he will find in that old writer. Here is a specimen. " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall wrap thy fall to-night ; For tlwu mast die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer...

...good. It was just such a day as George 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...

...most difficult of tasks, to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Wordsworth. 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...

...way, can be more pleasing than the sweet moralizing in what are perhaps his best-known lines, — on virtue ? — " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,...shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. " Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its...

...his eyes bent down, I heard him murmuring that delicious verse of George Herbert's, — " Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ! The dew shall weep thy fall to-uight, For thou must die ! " " ' For thou must die,' — so sad ! And yet the thought itself of...

...Before we do our wares unfold : So we freeze on, Until the grave increase onr cold. Uirtue. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth...shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever ill its...

...Before we do our wares unfold : So we freeze on, Until the grave increase our cold. FitttW, Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth...dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whoso hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its...