Why do ye wander wilfully away?
Lo, I have sought ye sorrowing every day,—
And yet ye will not answer,—will not turn
To meet My love for which the angels yearn!
In all the causeless griefs wherewith your hearts are movëd
Have ye no time to hear the Voice of the Belovëd?”
O hearken to the Voice of the Belovëd!
Sweeter it is than music,—sweeter far
Than angel-anthems in a happy star!
O wandering children of the Father’s House,