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Oh! never let us lightly fling The barb of woe to wound another; Oh! let us never haste to bring The cup of sorrow to a brother. Each has the power to wound, but he Who wounds that he may witness pain, Has learnt no law of charity, Which ne’er inflicts a pang in vain. ’Tis godlike to awaken joy, Or sorrow’s influence to subdue: But not to wound, nor to annoy, Is part of virtue’s lesson too;— Peace, winged in fairer worlds above, Shall lend her dawn and brighten this, When all man’s labour shall be love, And all his thoughts a brother’s bliss.
Oh! never let us lightly fling The barb of woe to wound another; Oh! let us never haste to bring The cup of sorrow to a brother. Each has the power to wound, but he Who wounds that he may witness pain, Has learnt no law of charity, Which ne’er inflicts a pang in vain. ’Tis godlike to awaken joy, Or sorrow’s influence to subdue: But not to wound, nor to annoy, Is part of virtue’s lesson too;— Peace, winged in fairer worlds above, Shall lend her dawn and brighten this, When all man’s labour shall be love, And all his thoughts a brother’s bliss.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Bowring (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 94 · printed citation: J. Bowring · subject: BROTHERHOOD
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