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Anna L. Barbauld·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
Blest is the man, whose softening heart
Feels all another’s pain;
To whom the supplicating eye
Was never raised in vain;--
Verse 2
Whose breast expands with generous warmth,
A stranger’s woes to feel,
And bleeds in pity o’er the wound
He wants the power to heal.
Verse 3
He spreads his kind supporting arms
To every child of grief;
Hie secret bounty largely flows,
And brings unasked relief.
Verse 4
To gentle offices of love,
His feet are never slow;
He views, through mercy’s melting eye,
A brother in a foe.
Anna L. Barbauld, “Blest Is the Man, Whose Softening Heart”
Otterbein 1890 No. 402 · C.M · Maitland
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Isaac Watts·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
Blest is the man whose heart doth move,
And melt with pity, to the poor;
Whose soul, by sympathizing love,
Feels what his fellow-saints endure.
Verse 2
His heart contrives, for their relief,
More good than his own hands can do;
He, in the time of general grief,
Shall find the Lord has pity too.
Verse 3
His soul shall live secure on earth,
With secret blessings on his head,
When drought, and pestilence, and dearth
Around him multiply their dead.
Verse 4
Or, if he languish on his couch,
God will pronounce his sins forgiven,
Will save him with a healing touch,
Or take his willing soul to heaven.
Otterbein 1890 No. 410
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