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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
George Herbert
Born: April 3, 1593
Died: March 1, 1633 (aged 39)
Bio: George Herbert was a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.
Known for:
- The Temple (1633)
- Poems of George Herbert
- The country parson
- The complete English poems
- The English poems of George Herbert
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