| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 55. The Divine Image |
| By William Blake (1757–1827) |
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| TO Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love | |
| All pray in their distress; | |
| And to these virtues of delight | |
| Return their thankfulness. | |
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| For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love | 5 |
| Is God, our Father dear, | |
| And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love | |
| Is man, His child and care. | |
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| For Mercy has a human heart, | |
| Pity a human face, | 10 |
| And Love, the human form divine, | |
| And Peace, the human dress. | |
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| Then every man, of every clime, | |
| That prays in his distress, | |
| Prays to the human form divine, | 15 |
| Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace. | |
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| And all must love the human form, | |
| In heathen, Turk, or Jew; | |
| Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell | |
| There God is dwelling too. | 20 |
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