By Their Works

CALL him not heretic whose works attest

His faith in goodness by no creed confessed.

Whatever in love’s name is truly done

To free the bound and lift the fallen one

Is done to Christ. Whoso in deed and word

Is not against Him labors for our Lord.

When He, who, sad and weary, longing sore

For love’s sweet service, sought the sisters’ door,

One saw the heavenly, one the human guest,

But who shall say which loved the Master best?

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