“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Sweet Phosphor, bring the day
Whose conquering ray
May chase these fogs;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Light will repay
The wrongs of night;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!”
Book I, no. 14.
Emblems (1635)
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