by George Herbert
Read by Robert Harris
George Herbert was, from 1630 to 1633, rector of Bemerton, a village close to Salisbury. Herbert was recently the subject of a talk by Edith Olivier in the series ' Western Worthies '. In this talk she mentioned that Herbert's book of poems ' The Temple ' sold twenty thousand copies in the forty years following his death. It is from The Temple' that several of the poems come which are to be read this evening.
