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Immortal love forever full

Immortal love, forever full,

Forever flowing free,

Forever shared, forever whole,

A never ebbing sea!

Our outward lips confess the

All other names above;

Love only knoweth whence it came,

And comprehendeth love.

Blow, winds of God, awake and

The mists of earth away:

Shine out,

O Light divine, and

How wide and far we stray.

We may not climb the heavenly

To bring the Lord Christ down;

In vain we search the lowest deeps,

For Him no depths can drown.

But warm, sweet, tender, even yet,

A present help is He;

And faith still has its Olivet,

And love its Galilee.

The healing of His seamless

Is by our beds of pain;

We touch Him in life’s throng and press,

And we are whole again.

Through Him the first fond prayers are

Our lips of childhood frame,

The last low whispers of our

Are burdened with His Name.

O Lord and Master of us all,

Whate’er our name or sign,

We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,

We test our lives by Thine.

The letter fails, the systems fall,

And every symbol wanes;

The Spirit over brooding all,

Eternal Love remains.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the Unit…

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