The fine, the base, He will distinguish, without flaw.
Our talents being tried by His omniscient skill,
What’s good, what’s bad, will sure appear, plain, by His will.139
XII.
Joseph and the Mirror.
The kings of yore a custom had, so I’ve been told,
Of course thou’st heard it;—must remember it, of old,
On their left hand their champions took their usual place;
Because the heart is on the left of body’s space.
Their chancellor and scribes stood on their right hand all;