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Love is of God.
1 John 4:7.
Say, whence does this union arise,
Where hatred is conquered by love?
It fastens our souls with such ties,
That distance nor time can remove.
2 It can not in Eden be found,
Nor yet in a Paradise lost;
It grows on Immanuel’s ground,
And Jesus’ life’s blood it has cost.
3 My friends so endeared unto me,
Our souls so united in love;
Where Jesus is gone we shall be,
In yonder blest mansions above.
4 Why then so unwilling to part,
Since there we shall soon meet again;
Engraved on Immanuel’s heart,
At distance we can not remain.
5 And then we shall see that bright day,
And join with the angels above,
Set free from our prisons of clay,
United in Jesus’ kind love.
6 With Jesus we ever shall reign,
And all his bright glory shall see;
Then sing hallelujahs—Amen!
Amen! Even so let it be!
Baldwin.