LAUS DEO

Let praise devote thy work, and skill employ

Thy whole mind, and thy heart be lost in joy.

Well-doing bringeth pride; this constant thought

Humility, that thy best done is naught.

Man doeth nothing well, be it great or small,

Save to praise God; but that hath savèd all.

For God requires no more than thou hast done,

And takes thy work to bless it for his own.

—Robert Bridges.