| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | A Prayer for Charity | | By Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) |
| | | THOU, who taught’st the blind man’s night | |
| To entertain a double light, | |
| Thine and the day’s (and that thine too)— | |
| The lame away his crutches threw; | |
| The parchèd crust of leprosy | 5 |
| Returned into its infancy; | |
| The dumb amazèd was to hear | |
| His own unchained tongue strike his ear; | |
| Thy powerful mercy did even chase | |
| The devil from his usurped place, | 10 |
| Where Thou Thyself should dwell, not he— | |
| O let Thy love our pattern be; | |
| Let thy mercy teach one brother | |
| To forgive and love another; | |
| That copying Thy mercy here, | 15 |
| Thy goodness may hereafter rear | |
| Our souls unto Thy glory, when | |
| Our dust shall cease to be with men. | | | | |
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