Bishop Heber.

SONNET.

Beauty still walketh on the earth and air,

Our present sunsets are as rich in gold

As ere Iliad’s music was outrolled;

The roses of the spring are ever fair,

'Mong branches green still ring-doves coo and pair,

And the deep sea still foams its music old.

So, if we are at all divinely souled,

This beauty will unloose our bonds of care.