Excerpt from Cuentos De California

"My Brother's Keeper, "

"Am I my brother's keeper?" Aye, thou art!
Tis thine to bind the wound, to ease the smart,
To guide the halting foot, to help the hand
Lagging with over-labor, thine to stand
Ever beside the weak against the strong -
A soldier, fearless of the ranks of wrong.
Tis thine to succor, shelter, and to heal
The ills of flesh and spirit, thine to feel -
A child of Earth-the common lot of woe.
'Our brother's Keeper' Aye! and could we know
Than this a Heaven fairer that could be!
Linked heart and hand in kindred unity,
To walk a world whence enmity had fled,
A world wherein the tempter, Self, was dead,
Unbound of cast or creed, or tongue, or race -
A world of Love, before our Father's face.

In a Coolbrith.

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