From “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto 8.
AND is there care in heaven? And is there love
  In heavenly spirits to these creatures base,
  That may compassion of their evils move?
  There is:—else much more wretched were the case
  Of men than beasts: but O the exceeding grace
  Of Highest God! that loves his creatures so,
  And all his...