His love was like the liberal air,—
Embracing all, to cheer and bless;
And every grief that mortals share
Found pity in his tenderness.


I. H. Bromley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


His love was like the liberal air,— Embracing all, to cheer and bless; And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness.

His love was like the liberal air,— Embracing all, to cheer and bless; And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness.

His love was like the liberal air,— Embracing all, to cheer and bless; And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness.

His love was like the liberal air,— Embracing all, to cheer and bless; And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness.