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For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, 

 For thou thyself art thine own bait ; 

 That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, 

 Alas ! is wiser far than I. 



{d) SOME OF HERBERT'S VERSES 

 The Elixir 



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 prepossest, 



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. 



