Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Jeremy Taylor (16131667)A Prayer for Charity
THOU, who taught’st the blind man’s night | |
To entertain a double light, | |
Thine and the day’s (and that thine too)— | |
The lame away his crutches threw; | |
The parchèd crust of leprosy | 5 |
Returned into its infancy; | |
The dumb amazèd was to hear | |
His own unchained tongue strike his ear; | |
Thy powerful mercy did even chase | |
The devil from his usurped place, | 10 |
Where Thou Thyself should dwell, not he— | |
O let Thy love our pattern be; | |
Let thy mercy teach one brother | |
To forgive and love another; | |
That copying Thy mercy here, | 15 |
Thy goodness may hereafter rear | |
Our souls unto Thy glory, when | |
Our dust shall cease to be with men. | |