VIII + 

The Widow with the Two Mites + 

Here much and little shift and change, + 

With scale of need and time; + 

There more and less have meanings strange, + 

Which the world cannot rime. + 

Sickness may be more hale than health, + 

And service kingdom high; + 

Yea, poverty be bounty’s wealth, + 

To give like God thereby. + 

Bring forth your riches; let them go, + 

Nor mourn the lost control; + 

For if ye hoard them, surely so + 

Their rust will reach your soul. + 

Cast in your coins, for God delights + 

When from wide hands they fall; + 

But here is one who brings two mites, + 

And thus gives more than all. + 

I think she did not hear the praise⁠— + 

Went home content with need; + 

Walked in her old poor generous ways, + 

Nor knew her heavenly meed. + 