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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun.
Oh! it was pitiful!
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Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun.
Oh! it was pitiful!
Near a whole city full,
Home had she none.
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
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To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
