I Have Seen The .Sea To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Eph. 3:19) A little child was playing by the shore Of the broad blue sea, And oft he looked away across the waves, So wonderingly. It was a new entrancing sight to him, That watery waste; The tossing billows breaking on the sand, With foam wreaths graced. And often in his distant inland home, With childish glee, The boy would say to young and older friends, “ I’ve seen the sea!” And so he had; the child made no mistake; His words were true; But yet how much of ocean’s vast expanse Had met his view? Only the waves that rippled on the shore, While far away, The broad Atlantic in its depth and strength Beyond him lay! And thus we say we know the love of Christ; And so we do. ’Tis no exaggeration or mistake, But sweetly true. But, ah! how much of that unfathomed love Do we yet know? Only the ripples on the shores of time: The nearer flow! A uthor U nknown
The year is gone; another dawns; So life with silent wing flits on; Thou, Lord, dost order all the course Of time aright, and Thou alone. To Thee, O God, our hearts we yield. Oh, fill us with Thy holy fear, To hate the sin that stains the past, And with Thy goodness crown the yeui. Lord, make Thy face to shine on us As years and ages onward move, That all the earth in duteous praise May sing to Thee, Thou God of love!
The Prince of Life O Prince of Life, Thy Life hath tuned All life to sweeter, loftier grace! Life’s common rounds have wider bounds Since Thou hast trod life’s common ways. 0 Heart of Love! Thy Tenderness Still runs through life’s remotest vein; And lust and greed and soulless creed Shall never rule the world again. 0 Life! O Love! O Living Word! Rent Veil, revealing God to man— Help, Lord! Lest I should crucify, By thought or deed, Thy Love again.
— Anon
—John Oxenham
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