OBLIGATION
By Edgar A. Guest

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OBLIGATION
By Edgar A. Guest

They cannot ask for kindness
Or for mercy plead,
Yet cruel is our blindness
Which does not see their need.

World over, town or city,
God trusts us with this task:
To give our love and pity
To those who cannot ask.