To lighten their burdens of grief and woe;
To shrive these dying souls of blame,
To bid them hope in Heaven above.
Who hath sent these in my dear name
To do this holiest work of love?
Hath the treasure here given been paid by those
Whose ‘wrongs’ are so earnestly plead by you?
Or hath it been done by their ‘natural foes,’
The wealthy, the rich, the opulent few
Of Madison Square and the Fifth Avenue?”