VERSES.
Reading edition
VERSES.
He shall sit as a refiner.
1.
As o’er the flame that proves his gold,
The artist bends with careful mind,
Till mirror’d there, he may behold
His features in the ore refined;
2.
So oft doth God his children prove,
When burns the fierce refining flame,
Till glows the image of his love,
And in the heart, he reads his name.