Jeremy Taylor
The Golden Grove
A Prayer for Charity
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Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
The Golden Grove
Full of Mercy, full of Love,
Look upon us from above;
Thou who taughtst the blind mans night
To entertain a double light,
Thine and the dayes (and that thine too)
The Lame away his Crutches threw,
The parched Crust of Leprosie
Returnd unto its infancy:
The Dumb amazed was to hear
His own unchaind tongue strike his ear:
Thy powerful Mercy did even chase
The Devil from his usurpd place,
Where thou thy self shouldst 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,
Thy Goodness may hereafter reare
Our Souls unto thy Glory, when
Our Dust shall cease to be with men. Amen.
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