The Thursday Poem

Potted Flowers with Books IV
Eric Barjot

The Divine Image

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 disresss,

Prays to the human form diving,

Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And allmust love the human form,

In heathen, Turk, or Jew;

Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell

There God is dwelling too.

William Blake

(28th November 1757 - 12th August 1827)