O that I could a sin once see! <br />We paint the devil foul, yet he <br />Hath some good in him, all agree. <br />Sin is flat opposite to th' Almighty, seeing <br />It wants the good of virtue, and of being. <br /> <br />But God more care of us hath had: <br />If apparitions make us sad, <br />By sight of sin we should grow mad. <br />Yet as in sleep we see foul death, and live: <br />So devils are our sins in perspective.<br /><br />George Herbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sin-ii/
