Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

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.