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This isn't meant to be contrapuntal, at all, to the Merry Christmas thread. I do it for my own selfish reasons.
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The Divine Image
by William Blake
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
For 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, & Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
I wish everyone on Hatrack every good thing in the coming new year. May whatever star you follow bring blessings on you and yours.
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