...the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

The speaker addresses a humble, “low” creature or object as a visible token of divine care—“the sure tie / Of thy Lord’s hand,” watched as “the object of His eye.” Even with dim spiritual sight, the speaker claims to perceive God indirectly through the beloved created thing: in contemplating it, he “can in thine see Him / Who looks upon thee.” The closing idea of a “covenant between all and One” frames creation as relational and sacramental: every being is bound to God and can mediate awareness of the divine. The passage exemplifies Vaughan’s devotional metaphysics, where attention to the small and near becomes a route to apprehending the transcendent.