Love is the part, and Love is the whole;

Love is the robe, and Love is the pall;

Ruler of heart and brain and soul,

Love is the Lord and the slave of all!

I thank Thee, Love, that Thou lov'st me;

I thank Thee more that I love Thee.

Love is the rain, and Love is the air;

Love is the earth that holdeth fast;

Love is the root that is buried there.

Love is the open flower at last!

I thank Thee, Love all round about,

That the eyes of my Love are looking out.

Love is the sun and Love is the sea;

Love is the tide that comes and goes;

Flowing and flowing it comes to me;

Ebbing and ebbing to thee it flows!

Oh my sun, and my wind, and tide!

My sea, and my shore, and all beside!

Light, oh light that art by showing;

Wind, oh wind that liv'st by motion;

Thought, oh thought that art by knowing;

Will, that art bom in self-devotion!

Love is you, though not all of you know it;

Ye are not love, yet ye always show it!

Faithful Creator, heart-longed-for Father.

Home of our heart-infolded Brother,

Home to Thee all thy glories gather —

All are Thy love, and there is no other!

O Love-at-rest ; we loves that roam —

Home unto Thee, we are coming home!