graven-work

Updated: May 12, 2025

I might forget, when I had spent my life in fining their gold and polishing their graven-work, that they were still vessels for the Master's use I only the Butler the sweetness and the spirit with which they brimmed all belonging to His lips who tasted bitterness for me.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow - A Brace Of Boys: 1867, From "Little Brother"