The Elixir - by George Herbert

Teach me, my God and my 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 runne into an action;

But still to make thee prepossest,

And give it his perfection.





A man that looks on glasse,

On it may stay his eye;

Or if he pleaseth, through it passe,

And then the haev'n espie.





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 drudgerie 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 lesse be told.