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CHARITY by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: IF BUT THE WORLD WOULD GIVE TO LOVE
Last Line: TO HIDE ITS MULTITUDE OF SINS.
Subject(s): CHARITY; PHILANTHROPY;
If but the world would give to love
The crumbs that from its table fall,
'Twere bounty large enough for all
The famishing to feed thereof.

And love, that still the laurel wins
Of sacrifice, would lovelier grow,
And round the world a mantle throw
To hide its multitude of sins.



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