Ebola hymn - How can we look, and not be moved

How can we look, and not be moved,

by lives that end and eyes that plead,

where parents cry while families part

amid their last despairing need.

Once we were distanced from the ones

that suffered while we stood to stare.

God give the gift of empathy

that we might offer more than prayer.

If all the world could live as one

then we would feel another's pain,

we'd feel each death as if our own

like links within a human chain.

When death and misery abound,

when illness strikes the human race,

God strengthen, fill us, with your hope

and bind us with your love and grace.
Andrew Pratt 30/10/2014

Hymn responding to the Ebola crisis.

Tune: BRESLAU; ABENDS

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