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CANTICA: OUR LORD CHRIST: OF ORDER, by                    
First Line: Set love in order, thou that lovest me
Last Line: Even this love's heat must be its curb and rein.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Order


Set Love in order, thou that lovest Me,
Never was virtue out of order found;
And though I fill thy heart desirously,
By thine own virtue I must keep My ground;
When to My love thou dost bring charity,
Even she must come with order girt and gowned.
Look how the trees are bound
To order, bearing fruit;
And by one thing compute
In all things earthly, order's grace or gain.

All earthly things I had the making of
Were numbered and were measured then by Me;
And each was ordered to its end by Love,
Each kept, through order, clean for ministry.
Charity most of all, when known enough,
Is of her very nature orderly.
Lo, now! what heat in thee,
Soul, can have bred this rout?
Thou put'st all order out,
Even this love's heat must be its curb and rein.





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