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Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
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.
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.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no read more
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven.
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.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
