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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FOIL, by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If we could see below
Last Line: As if grief were not foul, nor vertue winning.
First Line: If we could see below
Last Line: As if grief were not foul, nor vertue winning.
IF we could see below
The sphere of vertue, and each shining grace,
As plainly as that above doth show;
This were the better skie, the brighter place.
God hath made starres the foil
To set off vertues; griefs to set off sinning:
Yet in this wretched world we toil,
As if grief were not foul, nor vertue winning.
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