Excerpt from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse The standard of excellence has been kept as high as possible, but the very circumstances of the case prevent its being uniform. The high water mark of the religious lyric in England is fixed by Herbert; Vaughan in one or two pieces reaches as high so in another style do Crashaw and Marvell: but an anthology re stricted to the best work of these few poets, and the one or two of our own day who might rank with them, would lack variety, which is its chief essential. An anthology must. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.