Excerpt from The English Works of George Herbert, Vol. 3 of 3: Newly Arranged and Annotated and Considered in Relation to His Life; Bemerton Poems The beginning Of the Bemerton life brought to Herbert a joyful sense of attainment. The hopes 0 of many years seemed now about to be realized. The great deed was done. He was no longer cum bered with political, social, or scholarly ties. He and God were to be alone, and his one interest henceforth was to be the priestly Office. He set himself with characteristic energy to search out all the subtle significance which his present tasks might contain. His life should be as intellectually ordered, as coherent, as beautiful, as compact with rich suggestion, as his verse had been before. He codified his work; he studied from day to day what were the best ways Of performing each petty portion Of his stately Office. 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.