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By [|William Blake] Published in 1789, in his collection //Songs of Innocence and of Experience//

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress: And to those virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love, Is God, our father dear: And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, and Peace, the human dress.

Then every man of every clime, That prays in his distress, Prays to the human form divine, Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form, In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwell, There God is dwelling too.

Kathryn Teague