In truth there is no aristocracy;
Or rather we are princes, all of us.
Each one is wholly perfect, pure, and free,
The child of God, for truly none are lost;
No one is hopeless or superfluous.
However sick, or poor, or tempest-tossed
One seems to be, God sees him as His son.
Poems
All Are Equal Before God
From the September 1958 issue of The Christian Science Journal