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Closer Wooing
An Evening with Opening Hearts: the Story of a Supper and a Walk in the Moonlight and the Shadows
Nigh and nigh draws the chase,
With unperturbed pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
And past those noised Feet
A Voice comes yet more fleet—
"Lo, naught contents thee, who content'st not Me."
—"The Hound of Heaven."
"I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I
leave the world, and go unto the Father."—John xvi. 28.
"I thought His love would weaken
As more and more He knew me;
But it burneth like a beacon,
And its light and heat go through me;
And I ever hear Him say,
As He goes along His way,
Wand'ring souls, O do come near Me;
My sheep should never fear Me.
I am the Shepherd true."
—Frederick William Faber.