Teach me, my God and King,
In all things Thee
to see,
And what I do in anything
To do it as for
Thee.
Not rudely, as
a beast,
To run into an
action;
But still to make Thee prepossest,
And give it his perfection.
A man that
looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or it he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy.
All may of Thee partake:
Nothing can be so mean,
Which with his tincture (for Thy sake)
Will not grow bright and
clean.
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws,
Makes that and th' action
fine.
This is the famous stone
That turneth all to gold;
For that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for
less be told.
