Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | I. The Divine Element—(God, Christ, the Holy Spirit) | | The Love of God | | Eliza Scudder (1821–1896) |
| | | THOU Grace Divine, encircling all, | |
| A soundless, shoreless sea! | |
| Wherein at last our souls must fall, | |
| O Love of God most free! | |
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| When over dizzy heights we go, | 5 |
| One soft hand blinds our eyes, | |
| The other leads us, safe and slow, | |
| O Love of God most wise! | |
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| And though we turn us from thy face, | |
| And wander wide and long, | 10 |
| Thou hold’st us still in thine embrace, | |
| O Love of God most strong! | |
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| The saddened heart, the restless soul, | |
| The toil-worn frame and mind, | |
| Alike confess thy sweet control, | 15 |
| O Love of God most kind! | |
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| But not alone thy care we claim, | |
| Our wayward steps to win; | |
| We know thee by a dearer name, | |
| O Love of God within! | 20 |
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| And, filled and quickened by thy breath, | |
| Our souls are strong and free | |
| To rise o’er sin and fear and death, | |
| O Love of God, to thee! | | | | |
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