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.