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Caritas

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

In the suburb, in the town,
On the railway, in the square,
Came a beam of goodness down
Doubling daylight everywhere:
Peace now each for malice takes,
Beauty for his sinful weeds,
For the angel Hope aye makes
Him an angel whom she leads.

Published in The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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