Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 415

If the child of a rich man looks destitute, whom
are the world to laugh at, O God! Vicious or
offensive though he be, yet his father has to look
after him. Even so I am a sinful man, says Tuka,
but I am Thy servant, stamped as Thy own.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents