Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Nick Cave - Hallelujah (Live 2001)
...And now, words from another Anglican of a very different stripe, George Herbert - whose words are no less coruscating, no less haunting -
The Foil.
If we could see below The sphere of virtue, and each shining grace, As plainly, as that above doth shew; That were the better sky, the brighter place.
God hath made stars the foil To set off virtues; griefs, to set off sinning. Yet in this wretched world we toil; As if grief were not foul, nor virtue winning.
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