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Home: Poetry: William Blake: Divine Image
| DIVINE IMAGE |
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a poem by 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.
- 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.
| "Divine Image" is reprinted from Songs of Innocence and Experience. William Blake. London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1866. |
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