The magic stone by its virtue has turned common metal into gold; even so, O Lord of Pandhari, consider not my faults or shortcomings. The Ganges does not charge with impurity a filthy stream that runs below a village. Tuka says, Common earth is valued if musk has imparted its odour into it.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 450
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents