Light of Love

The Lord exists forever;

your word is firmly fixed in heaven.

Your word is a lamp to my feet 

and light to my path.

Psalm 119:89, 105

God! Thou art love!  I build my faith on that...

I know thee, who hast kept my path,

and made

Light for me in darkness, tempering sorrow

So that it reached me like a solemn joy;

It were too strange that I should doubt 

thy love.

--Robert Browning, "Paracelsus"

O Word of God Incarnate, O Wisdom from on high,

O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light

of our dark sky:

We praise thee for the radiance

That from the hallowed page,

A lantern to our footsteps,

Shines on from age to age.

--William W. How, "O Word of God Incarnate"