That I doubt His own love can compete with it? Here, the parts shift?
Here, the creature surpass the Creator,—the end what BeganB?"
B: Saul.
Not so, says David, and with him no doubt the poet himself. God is Himself the source and fulness of love.
"Tis Thou, God, that givest, 'tis I who receive:
In the first is the last, in Thy will is my power to believe.
All's one gift."
"Would I suffer for him that I love? So would'st Thou,—so wilt Thou!
So shall crown Thee, the topmost, ineffablest, uttermost crown—