THE HIGH WAY

     There is no better way to be inclined
     Than toward charity, toward being kind:
     To live that way we’re naturally designed,
     The progeny of an all-loving Mind.

     Yet those who seek to willfully divorce
     Their motives from the mandate of our Source
     Will find themselves then bound upon a course
     Leading to consternation and remorse—

     Or if not that, because their hearts are hard
     And they give their posterity no regard,
     Unwary that their fortunes are ill-starred,
     They’ll find their expectations all are marred,

          For there’s no better way to be inclined
          Than toward charity—toward being kind.

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