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Love yourself  deeply my dear friends  I pray

So that your fellowmen ask  in Bombay

and Washington - whence comes this soothing light?-

It shines so bright, yet does not proselyte.?



Love yourselves first, and be not bluff and gruff

Against your own flesh for you cannot love

Nor quench your fellows' yearnings, nor his thirst,

Unless you truly love yourself the first!



How can a man his neighbor fully serve

Without a sparkle in himself, nor verve--

Deprived himself of light how can he show

The candle that for neighbors ought to glow?



God's love enfolds all peoples of the earth;

And every soul is such infinite worth

But He alone determines the degree

perceived, -as it befits  - - the entity.



As cherished children of the Lord on high

You have no reason to be coy and shy

To truly love yourselves with fervency

And your dear neighbor in the same degree;



Not more, -- this would be boastful vanity!

Infringement on divine priority;

Dispensing bountifully from above

As font, as  source and wellspring of all love.