Click here for the score to Aspinwall’s anthem:  Aspinwall.Blake in A flat

Lyrics below, from the poem “Divine Image” by William Blake

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress,
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

For 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, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine;
And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine:
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,
Diverse in creed and view. [sic]
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.