Living
Pity and Compassion
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Let pity and compassion be outspread,
Early as prayer, above the boyish head,
There take full swoop, there find unbroken rest!
No blessing ever leaves the human breast
Without returning to it, soon or late,
And driving back the strides of adverse fate.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Pity and Compassion.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/828/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Pity and Compassion.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/828/.
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