Mercy Pity Peace

The Image Divine

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
All pray in their distress
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

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 Time,
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.

William Blake