A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee ...

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.

His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged b ...

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to misery a tear, He gain'd from Heaven a friend.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.