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Text:To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Author:William Blake, 1757-1827
Tune:EPSOM
Composer (attributed to):Willima Tans'ur, 1706-83

469. To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

1 To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress,
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

2 For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is God our Father dear;
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is Man, his child and care.

3 For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

4 Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine:
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

Text Information
First Line: To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Author: William Blake, 1757-1827
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1986
Topic: The Church: The Kingdom of God
Tune Information
Name: EPSOM
Composer (attributed to): Willima Tans'ur, 1706-83
Meter: CM
Key: F Major
Source: Harmony of Syon, 1734; Present version from Arnold's Compleat Psalmodist, 1756



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