 | William Maxwell Hetherington - Families - 1856 - 118 pages
...me, my God and King, In all things Hiee to see; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee. u A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine;...that and the action fine. " This is the famous stone Which turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told." " Servants,... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - Christian life - 1856 - 208 pages
...from that sacred circle, in which the Christian did homage to the majesty of the Crucifixion. Crdy. All may of thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which...tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own, Cannot for... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...timber, never gives. The Answer. Like summer friends, Flies of estates and sunnen shine. The Elixir. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ;...room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine. The Church Porch. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. Dare... | |
 | William Lyle - 1856 - 88 pages
...everything he does. Old Herbert's rugged verses are full both of Christian feeling and worldly wisdom — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that an action fine." It is as right to be minutely exact in small things as to be great in affairs of high... | |
 | Jane Anne Winscom - 1857 - 364 pages
...Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ;...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." HERBERT. ELEANOR FAWCETT was a soldier's daughter. Before Major Sterling's removal... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 806 pages
...have discovered in the make-believe deity of her broom ? Laborarc est orare. " A /•/.!.•<"•• with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." Our Bibf's culinary functions constitute a priestly office, in the mysteries of which... | |
 | George Herbert - Poetry - 1857 - 274 pages
...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 claus Makes drudgerie divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. This... | |
 | 1857 - 272 pages
...your heavenly Master ; to love Him, to obey Him, to resist all temptation. An old poet has said, — " Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine * ; " meaning, that however little the thing is, if we do it because it is our duty, we shall be serving... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...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, — FOB Tnr SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...— The fourth stanza in this poem, as given in the only edition I have within reach, runs thus : " All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean." " His tincture " is, I conclude, a misprint... | |
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A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine. 
