Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital
(1789)
“ Disease on earth its head recline, And bids Compassion seek the realms of woe To heal the wounded, and to raise the low. She comes! she comes! the meek-eyed Power I see With liberal hand that loves to bless; The clouds of Sorrow at her presence flee; Rejoice! rejoice! ye Children of Distress! The beams that play around her head Thro’ Want’s dark vale their radiance spread: The young uncultur’d mind imbibes the ray, And Vice reluctant quits th’ expected prey. ”
