A VERSIFICATION OF PART OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF FIRST CORINTHIANS.
Through I were gifted with an angel's tongue,And voice like that with which the prophets sung,Yet if mild charity were not within,"Twere all an impious mockery and sin.
Though I the gift of prophecy possessed,And faith like that which Abraham professed,They all were like a tinkling cymbal's sound,If meek-eyed charity did not abound.
Though I to feed the poor my goods bestow,And to the flames my body I should throw,Yet the vain act would never cover sinIf heaven-born charity were not within.
