The Potter
A Potter, playing with his lump of clay, Fashioned an image of supremest worth. "Never was nobler image made on earth, Than this that I have fashioned of my clay. And I, of mine own skill, did fashion it,-- I--from this lump of clay." The Master, looking out on Pots and Men, Heard his vain boasting, smiled at that he said. "The clay is Mine, and I the Potter made, As I made all things,--stars, and clay, and men. In what doth this man overpass the rest? --Be thou as other men!" He touched the Image,--and it fell to dust, He touched the Potter,--he to dust did fall. Gently the Master,--"I did make them all,-- All things and men, heaven's glories, and the dust. Who with Me works shall quicken death itself, Without Me--dust is dust."
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