Poems (Rumell)/Sweet charity
SWEET CHARITY
Sweet Charity! Just a common garden flower!Yet, so clean and wholesome after all.Like love, the more you give, the more you have,And by its giving, none were ever known to fall!
This flower, we give the stranger within our gate,"What is that to thee", what state or creed or name?And by giving, gain love for every hate;Thus proving the principle that from the Master came.
I know-we chant and sing, of all the heathens need.And yes-we freely give, of our prayers and labor.But how can we teach the Christ's loving creed,If we lack Charity, for our next door neighbor?