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 In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
 And poverty stood smiling in my sight.  
 In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
 And poverty stood smiling in my sight. 
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
 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. 
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
 Pity the sorrow of a poor old man,
 Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.  
 Pity the sorrow of a poor old man,
 Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. 
 In misery's darkest caverns known,
 His useful care was ever nigh,
  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,
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 In misery's darkest caverns known,
 His useful care was ever nigh,
  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,
   And lonely want retir'd to die. 
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
 Heaven did a recompense as largely send;
  He gave read more 
 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
 Heaven did a recompense as largely send;
  He gave to misery (all he had) a tear,
   He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. 
 A kind and gentle heart he had,
 To comfort friends and foes;
  The naked every day he read more 
 A kind and gentle heart he had,
 To comfort friends and foes;
  The naked every day he clad
   When he put on his clothes.