Blake's Divine Image, which Neville produces when he has to describe the immortal body and finds words inadequate. Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love is God, our father dear; and Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love is Man, his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity the human face, and Love, the human form divine, and Peace, the human dress. He quotes it as a man quoting someone who could do what he cannot - one who not only saw it, as I have seen it, but he had the ability to tell it as I have not arrived so far to tell it. The stanza does the work of a description: the form itself is Love, the face is Pity, the heart is Mercy and the clothing is Peace, so the four virtues are given as anatomy rather than as conduct. He then distributes it to everyone: in the end everyone will have the heart of mercy, the face of pity and the dress of peace, and the form itself will be the human form divine, and that form is infinite love. About four lectures carry the stanza itself; the phrase human form divine is in nearly forty.
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For Mercy has a human heart, Pity the human face. And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress
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everyone will have the heart of mercy, everyone will have the face of pity, and everyone will be wearing the dress of peace
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Like mercy, pity, peace, love, all embodied in one being
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For Mercy has a human heart, Pity the human face. And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
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And everyone will have the heart of mercy, everyone will have the face of pity, and everyone will be wearing the dress of peace. But the form itself will be the human form divine, and that form is infinite love.
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