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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.
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.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
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.
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.
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.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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.
