The Divine Image

To Mercy,
Pity,
Peace,
and Love

All pray in their distress;

And to these virtues of delight

Return their thankfulness.

To 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,
and Pity dwell

There God

is dwelling too.