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 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 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.
 To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
 [To steal the hog, and give the feet to read more 
 To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
 [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] 
 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by 
interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was read more 
 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by 
interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good 
works and almsdeeds which she did.