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THE SACRAMENT OF LOVE, by                    
First Line: Love is the sacrament of sacraments
Last Line: Thank god for love, -- his first, -- then yours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Love; Religion; Sacraments; Theology


Love is the sacrament of sacraments;
For God is Love, and Love is God;
Who loves knows Him, and in Him all the heights
And depths of those high rapturous delights
Which for Love's soul are very soul of life,
And through the troubled ways, -- through stress and strife,
Bear the soul upward to that final goal
Where Life and Love make one full-rounded whole.

Love tints the grayest life with rose;
Love kindles fires 'mid winter snows.

Love draws the fallen from his sin;
Love helps the sinner grace to win.

Love lifts the fringes of the night;
Love gifts the eyes of Faith with sight.

Love to all loveliness is kin;
Love moulds all Life, -- without, -- within.

Love is the mightiest power on earth;
Love to Eternal Hope gives birth.

Love -- the Beginning and the End --
All life and death doth comprehend.

Love lived in Death upon the Tree;
Love lives again, for you and me.

Love through eternity endures,
For God is Love,
And Love is God.
Thank God for Love, -- His first, -- then yours!





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