The Divine Image
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love,All pray in their distress;And to these virtues of delightReturn 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 heartPity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divineLove Mercy Pity Peace.
And all must love the human form,In heathen, turk or jew,Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too.