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Love Thee! Oh, clad in human lowliness,— In whom each heart its mortal kindred knows,— Our flesh, our forms, our tears, our pains, our woes; A fellow-wanderer o’er earth’s wilderness! Love Thee!—whose very word but breathes to bless! Through Thee, from long-seal’d lips, glad language flows; The blind their eyes, that laugh with light, unclose; And babes, unchid, Thy garment’s hem caress. I see thee—doomed by bitterest pangs to die, Up the sad hill, with willing footsteps move, With scorge, and taunt, and wanton agony; While the cross nods, in hideous gloom, above, Though all—even there—be radiant Deity! Speechless I gaze, and my whole soul is Love.
Love Thee! Oh, clad in human lowliness,— In whom each heart its mortal kindred knows,— Our flesh, our forms, our tears, our pains, our woes; A fellow-wanderer o’er earth’s wilderness! Love Thee!—whose very word but breathes to bless! Through Thee, from long-seal’d lips, glad language flows; The blind their eyes, that laugh with light, unclose; And babes, unchid, Thy garment’s hem caress. I see thee—doomed by bitterest pangs to die, Up the sad hill, with willing footsteps move, With scorge, and taunt, and wanton agony; While the cross nods, in hideous gloom, above, Though all—even there—be radiant Deity! Speechless I gaze, and my whole soul is Love.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Milman (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 368 · printed citation: Milman · subject: LOVE
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