Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night and the winter's snow,In the naked and outcast, seek Love there!

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe?