THE DIVINE IMAGE

A HYMN FOR THE 3rd SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

By William Blake

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. 

Then every man, of every clime, 

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.