Teach Me My God and King

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Teach Me My God and King
by
George Herbert, 1633

STATE STREET-Jonathan C. Woodman
CARLISLE-Charles Lockhart
MORNINGTON-Earl of Mornington (arr. Garret C. Wel
lesley)
ST. ANDREW-Joseph Barnby
ST. MARGARET-S. J. P. Dunman
ST. MICHAEL-Genevan Psalter, 1551
SANDYS-Trad English carol

Teach Me, My God and King
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Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in anything,
To do it as for thee.

All may of thee partake;
Nothing can be so mean,
Which with this tincture, "for thy sake,"
Will not grow bright and clean.

A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and the action fine.

This is the famous stone
That turneth all to gold;
For that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for less be told.