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The Elixir
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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! |
To scorn the senses’ sway, While still to Thee I tend: In all I do, be Thou the Way; In all, be Thou the End. |
A man that looks on glass, On that may fix his eye; Or unopposed may through it pass And heaven behind descry. |
All may of Thee partake Nothing so small can be, But draws, when acted for Thy sake, Greatness and worth from Thee. |
If done to obey Thy laws, Even servile labours shine; Hallow’d is toil, if this the cause, The meanest work divine. |
The elixir this, the stone That all converts to gold: For that which God for His doth own Cannot for less be told.1414Wesley published this in his anonymous “Collection of Psalms and Hymns,” 1738: but there for “small” in v.4 we read “mean;” for “is” in v.5 we read “all;” and the first line of v.6 is “This is the long-sought stone,” which he has restored in the second edition of “Hymns and Sacred Poems,” 1739, along with the title which he at first prefixed, viz., “A Single Eye.” |
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