George Herbert - The Pulley

Against Psalm 131, as if anticipating the frame of Psalm 132, Neale cites George Herbert's The Pulley in its entirety

When God at first made man, 

Having a glasse of blessings standing by; 

Let us (said he) poure on him all we can: 

Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie, 

Contract into a span. 

So strength first made a way; 

Then beautie flow’d, then wisdome, honour, pleasure: 

When almost all was out, God made a stay, 

Perceiving that alone of all his treasure 

Rest in the bottome lay. 

For if I should (said he) 

Bestow this jewell also on my creature, 

He would adore my gifts in stead of me, 

And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: 

So both should losers be. 

Yet let him keep the rest, 

But keep them with repining restlesnesse: 

Let him be rich and wearie, that at least, 

If goodnesse leade him not, yet wearinesse 

May tosse him to my breast.