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1807–1892

BY THEIR WORKS.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Call him not heretic whose works attest His faith in goodness by no creed confessed. Whatever in love's name is truly done To free the bound and lift the fallen one

Is done to Christ. Whoso in deed and word Is not against Him labors for our Lord. When He, who, sad and weary, longing sore For love's sweet service, sought the sisters’ door,

One saw the heavenly, one the human guest, But who shall say which loved the Master best?

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