And still, as oft, I thrust back;
Thy messengers I could not see
In those who every thing did lack,
The poor, the outcast, and the black.
Pride held his hand before mine eyes,
The world with flattery stuffed mine ears;
I looked to see a monarch’s guise,
Nor dreamed thy love would knock for years,
Poor, naked, fettered, full of tears.
Yet, when I sent my love to thee,
Thou with a smile didst take it in,
And entertain’dst it royally,
Though grinned with earth, with hunger thin,
And leprous with the taint of sin.
Now, every day thy love I meet,
As o’er the earth it wanders wide,
With weary step and bleeding feet,
Still knocking at the heart of pride
And offering grace, though still denied.
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