George Herbert - The StormGeorge Herbert - The Storm
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If as the windes and waters here below
Do flie and flow,
My sighs and tears as busy were above;
Sure they would move
And much affect thee, as tempestuous times
Amaze poore mortals, and object their crimes.
Starres have their storms, ev`n in a high degree,
As well as we.
A throbbing conscience spurred by remorse
Hath a strange force:
It quits the earth, and mounting more and more,
Dares to assault thee, and besiege thy doore.
There it stands knocking, to thy musick`s wrong,
And drowns the song.
Glorie and honour are set by till it
An answer get.
Poets have wrong`d poore storms: such dayes are best;
They purge the aire without, within the breast.
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