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When love beckons to you, follow him, |
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Though his ways are hard and steep. |
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And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, |
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Though he hides a sword among him. |
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And when he speaks to you, believe in him, |
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Though his voice may shatter your dreams. |
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Love will crown and crucify you. |
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And though for your growth so he is for your pruning. |
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Love will caresses your tenderest branches, And shake every clinging root. |
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Like sheaves of corn, he gathers you unto himself. |
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He threshes and sifts you. He grinds and he kneads you. |
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And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, |
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That you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. |
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All these things shall love do unto you, |
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That you may know the secrets of your heart. |
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And in that knowledge become a fragment, |
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A fragment of life's heart. |
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Now if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, |
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Better cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, |
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Into a seasonless world where you shall laugh, |
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But not all of your laughter, |
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and weep, and weep, but not all of your tears. |
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Love gives naught but itself, and takes naught but from itself. |
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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; |
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For love is enough. |
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You should say, "I am in the heart of God." |
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You can not direct the course of love. |
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If Love,it finds you worthy, directs your course. |
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To wake at dawn with a winged heart; |
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To come home in the evening with gratitude; |
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Then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart, |
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And a song of praise on your lips. |
