StoryTitle("caps", "Virtue") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bridal of the earth and sky—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For thou must die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy root is ever in its grave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And thou must die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A box where sweets compacted lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My music shows ye have your closes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And all must die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only a sweet and virtuous soul,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like season'd timber, never gives;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But though the whole world turn to coal, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then chiefly lives.", "") ?>
Poet("George Herbert", "1593-1632") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>