Poem: “The Sacrament of the World, Or God’s Inscape” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.

It not only prayer that gives glory to God but work,
smiting on an anvil, sowing a beam,
white-washing a wall, driving horses,
reaping, scouring, everything gives God glory.
It being in his grace, you do it as your duty.
To go to Communion worthily gives God great glory,
but simply to take food in thankfulness
and temperance gives God glory too.
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory.
But a man with a dung-fork in his hand
or a woman with a slop-pail,
They give God glory too.
All things give God glory if you mean they should.
So then, my brethren, this is the way to live.