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Stephen Vincent Benét  Book of Common Prayer

WILLIAM BLAKE

TO MERCY, PITY, PEACE AND LOVE

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love

All pray in their distress

And to those virtues of delight

Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love

Is You, our God most dear;

And Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love

Is Man, Your child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,

Pity, a human face;

And Love, the human form divine,

And Peace, the human dress.

Then ev’ry one, of ev’ry clime,

That prays in true distress,

Prays to the human form divine:

Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form

In heathen, Turk or Jew;

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,

There You are dwelling too.