"Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?"

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Source: 'Jordan (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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George Herbert

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George Herbert was a 17th-century poet and priest known for his profound religious poetry, particularly in his collection 'The Temple'.

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