Distress you with “too much.” For He hath said

How much—and who shall dare to change His measure?

“That ye should love as I have loved you.”

O sweet command, that goes so far beyond

The mightiest impulse of the tenderest heart!

A bare permission had been much; but He

Who knows our yearnings and our fearfulness,

Chose graciously to bid us do the thing

That makes our earthly happiness,

A limit that we need not fear to pass,