The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations/The Elixer
For works with similar titles, see The Elixir.
¶ The Elixer.
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 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 heav'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 clauseMakes drudgerie divine:Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,Makes that and th' action fine.
This is the famous stoneThat turneth all to gold:For that which God doth touch and ownCannot for lesse be told.