Religion
First Sunday after Trinity
From Spiritual Songs for the Sundays and Holydays (1861)
'God is love,' the Heavens tell it
Thro' their glorious orbs of light,
In that glad and golden language
Speaking to us, day and night,
Their great story,
'God is Love/ and God is Might.
A.nd the teeming earth rejoices
In that message from above,
With ten thousand thousand voices
Telling back, from hill and grove,!
Her glad story,
God is Might, and ' God is Love.'
With these anthems of Creation
Mingling in harmonious strife,
Christian songs, of Christ's salvation
To the world with blessings rife
Tell their story,
'God is Love,' and God is Life.
Thro' that precious ' Love' He sought us
Wand'ring from His holy ways,
With that precious ' Life' He bought us,
Then let all our future days,
Tell this story,
Love our life — our life be praise.
Gladsome is the theme, and glorious,
Praise to Christ our gracious Head,
Christ, the risen Christ, victorious,
Death and Hell hath captive led!
Welcome story!
Love is Life — and Death is dead.
Up to Him, let each affection
Daily rise, and round Him move,
Our whole lives, one Resurrection
To the life of Life above,
Their glad story,
God is Life — and ' God is Love.'
Codex Note
Text: God is love. — 1 John iv. 8.
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MLA
Monsell, John S. B. “First Sunday after Trinity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/monsell/47/.
Chicago
Monsell, John S. B. “First Sunday after Trinity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/monsell/47/.
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