And this was love! You know the Master’s words,
That they alone who lose it find their life.
’Tis true. No soul can feel full consciousness
Of full existence till it really love,
And yield its own to serve another’s life.
“To serve Christ’s life,” you say?—But part of that
By Christ’s humaneness is to serve mankind.
I speak a law of life, a truth of God:
To heaven I dare as little limit it
As to the earth; whatever be our sphere,