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Poem January 30, 1954 Issue

COMPASSION

Jeannette H. Johansson

Compassion is no swinging cloak
worn on the rigid shoulders
of self-righteousness.

Compassion is sight
before whose gaze
the bleak and ugly picture melts away
and shows
the child of God
in all his purity.

Jeannette H. Johansson

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