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SONNET MADE UPON THE GROVES NEAR MERLOU CASTLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You well-compacted groves, whose light and shade
Last Line: A self-renewing vegetable bliss?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Landscape


You well-compacted groves, whose light and shade,
Mix'd equally, produce nor heat nor cold,
Either to burn the young or freeze the old,
But to one even temper being made,
Upon a green embroidering through each glade
An airy silver and a sunny gold,
So clothe the poorest that they do behold
Themselves in riches which can never fade;
While the wind whistles, and the birds do sing,
While your twigs clip, and while the leaves do friss,
While the fruit ripens which those trunks do bring,
Senseless to all but love, do you not spring
Pleasure of such a kind as truly is
A self-renewing vegetable bliss?





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