True Kindness
by Henry David Thoreau
True Kindness is featured in Thoreau's collection, Poems of Nature (1895). We are impressed with his rhyming selection for "affinity." "Consanguinity" is "blood relation" in Latin; its root "sanguine" means optimistic or positive, a clever double entendre.
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.
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