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O Brother Man Fold to Thy Heart Thy Brother
by
John G. Whittier, 1848
STRENGTH AND STAY-John Bacchus Dykes
ILONA-Joseph W. Lerman
INTERCESSOR-Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
O Brother Man, Fold to Thy Heart Thy Brother
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O Brother man, fold to Thy heart Thy brother:
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
Follow with reverent steps the great example
Of him whose holy work was doing good:
So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.
Then shall all shackles fall: the stormy clangor
Of wild war-music o'er the earth shall cease;
Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
And in its ashes plant the tree of peace.