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To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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.
Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.
Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
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.
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.
