Of thousand thousand choirs that Take heart of grace, for grace shall sing, and see Thy Face, me loving, for Thou lovest me. Before 1886. IF love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living, Nor aught is worth remembering but well forgot; For store is not worth storing and gifts are not worth giving, If love is not; And idly cold is death-cold, and life-heat idly hot, And vain is any offering and vainer our receiving, And vanity of vanities is all our lot. Better than life's heaving heart is death's heart unheaving, Better than the opening leaves are the leaves that rot, For there is nothing left worth achieving or retrieving, If love is not. Before 1886. be thy dole. Give thanks to-day, and let to-morrow take Heed to itself; to-day imports thee more. To-morrow may not dawn like yesterday: Until that unknown morrow go thy way, Suffer and work and strive for Jesus' sake : Who tells thee what to-morrow keeps in store? 2 March 1850 to before 1886. THEY lie at rest, our blessed dead; The dews drop cool above their head, They knew not when fleet summer fled. Together all, yet each alone; Each laid at rest beneath his own When shall our slumber sink so deep, And eyes that wept and eyes that weep WHAT is it Jesus saith unto the Weep not in the sufficient sleep? Body to bear; it will not weigh GREAT or small below, on thee Past strength; or if it crush thee to thy knee Great or small above; Be we Thine, whom Thou dost know And love: |