To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress;… - William Blake

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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.

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About William Blake

William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 12 1827) was an English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver.

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Alternative Names: W. Blake • Uil'iam Bleik • Blake

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For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

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John Milton Lord Byron William Shakespeare Samuel Taylor Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley

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