As beauty seeks her mirror, with a special greed.
A pretty face is charming in its mirror seen;
Beneficence gleams lovely through want’s chilly sheen.
God hath enjoined in holy writ: “By forenoon’s glare!”[315]
“Muhammed, chide not thou too much at beggar’s prayer!”[316]505
A beggar is a mirror wherein bounty shines.
Dull not that mirror, then, with breath of anger’s whines!
The beggar ’tis shows forth what charity achieves;
A charitable man for this those wants relieves.
A beggar, then, ’s a mirror of th’ Almighty’s grace;