Can I think the Guide of Heaven <br />Hath so beautifully given <br />Outward features, 'cause He meant <br />To have made less excellent <br />Your divine part? Or suppose <br />Beauty, goodness doth oppose; <br />Like those fools, who do despair <br />To find any, good and fair? <br />Rather there I seek a mind <br />Most excelling, where I find <br />God hath to the body lent <br />Most-beseeming ornament, <br />And I do believe it true, <br />That, as we the body view <br />Nearer to perfection grow; <br />So, the soul herself doth show: <br />Other more and more excelling <br />In her powers; as in her dwelling.<br /><br />George Wither<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lilies-without-lilies-within/
