Poem: “To Know All is to Forgive All,” by Nixon Waterman

 If I knew you and you knew me – 

If both of us could clearly see,

And with an inner sight divine

The meaning of your heart and mine – 

I’m sure that we would differ less

And clasp our hands in friendliness;

Our thoughts would pleasantly agree

If I knew you and you knew me.

 

If I knew you and you knew me,

As each one knows his own self, we

Could look each other in the face

And see therein a truer grace.

Life has so many hidden woes,

So many thorns for every rose;

The “why” of things our hearts would see,

If I knew you and you knew me.