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Herbert SONNET NO. 7               Lo, in the orient when the gracious light,           Lifts up his burning head, each under eye,           Doth homage to his new appearing sight,           Serving with looks his sacred majesty,           And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,           Resembling strong youth in his middle age,           Yet mortal looks adore his beauty  still,           Attending on his glorious pilgrimage:           But when from highmost pitch, with weary car           Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day           The eyes (fore duteous) now converted are           From his low tract , and look another way,           So thou, thyself out going in thy noon,           Unlook'd on diest unless thou get a son.

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    Note the repetition of the following-his  burning head, his
  new appearing sight, his  sacred majesty, his middle age, his
  beauty, his  glorious pilgrimage, his  low tract.
  
    This sonnet is addressed by Bacon to his friend William
  Herbert.   He writes of the sun (the gracious light) in the Orient
  (East).   Lifting up his burning  head when each under eye (the
  eyes of people on this earth) doth homage (reverence) to the
  rise of the sun (his new appearing sight).  Looking on the sun
  (his sacred Majesty).  That the sun high in the sky (having
  climbed the steep heavenly hill) and being halfway to sunset
  resembled a strong youth in his middle  age yet mortal look~
  (the looks of mortals (men) ) still adore the sun's beauty as it
  goes on its pilgrimage through the skies.   That when the sun
  from midday (highmost pitch) reels from the day (sets) like
  feeble age-the eyes of mortals are now converted (turned away)
  from his low tract (the sun having set) and look elsewhere.  So
  Bacon tells Herbert that if he dies in his middle age (his noon)
  he will be forgotten (die unlooked on) unless he begets a son.
  
  

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