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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.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine,
would vote for nothing but a read more
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine,
would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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.
His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;
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His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;
The long remembered beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
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.
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.
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.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth:
That thine read more
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth:
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in
secret himself shall reward thee openly.