Vertue, George Herbert (século XVII) !

Num relance pela estante encontrei um livro velhinho, resolvi pegar-lhe abri ao acaso e apareceu este poema:

Vertue

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,

The bridall of the earth and skie:

The dew shall weep thy fall so night;

For thou must die.

Sweet rose, whose hue angrie and brave

Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye:

Thy root is ever in its grave,

And thou must die.

Sweet spring, full of sweet dayes and roses

A box where sweets compacted lie;

My musick shows ye have your closes,

And all must die.

Onely a sweet and vertuous soul,

Like season'd timber, never gives;

But though the wohle world turna to coal,

Then chiefly lives.

George Herbert in, The Metaphysical Poets, Middlesex: Penguin Book, 1970, p. 127-128 (Selected e Edited by Elen Gardner)