Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By George Herbert (1593–1633)Dialogue
| SWEETEST Saviour, if my soul | |
| Were but worth the having, | |
| Quickly should I then control | |
| Any thought of waving. | |
| But when all my care and pains | 5 |
| Cannot give the name of gains | |
| To Thy wretch so full of stains, | |
| What delight or hope remains? | |
| What, child, is the balance thine, | |
| Thine the poise and measure? | 10 |
| If I say, Thou shalt be Mine, | |
| Finger not My treasure. | |
| What the gains in having thee | |
| Do amount to, only He, | |
| Who for man was sold, can see; | 15 |
| That transferr’d th’ accounts to Me. | |