George Herbert (1593–1633)

TEACH me, my God and King,

In all things thee to see;

And, what I do in any thing,

To do it as for thee:

Not rudely, as a beast,

To run into an action;

But still to make thee prepossessed,

And give it his perfection.

A man that looks on glass

On it may stay his eye;

Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass,

And then the heaven espy.

All may of thee partake:

Nothing can be so mean,

Which with this 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 the 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.