Love is the part, and love is the whole; <br />Love is the robe, and love is the pall; <br />Ruler of heart and brain and soul, <br />Love is the lord and the slave of all! <br />I thank thee, Love, that thou lov'st me; <br />I thank thee more that I love thee. <br /> <br />Love is the rain, and love is the air, <br />Love is the earth that holdeth fast; <br />Love is the root that is buried there, <br />Love is the open flower at last! <br />I thank thee, Love all round about, <br />That the eyes of my love are looking out. <br /> <br />Love is the sun, and love is the sea; <br />Love is the tide that comes and goes; <br />Flowing and flowing it comes to me; <br />Ebbing and ebbing to thee it flows! <br />Oh my sun, and my wind, and tide! <br />My sea, and my shore, and all beside! <br /> <br />Light, oh light that art by showing; <br />Wind, oh wind that liv'st by motion; <br />Thought, oh thought that art by knowing; <br />Will, that art born in self-devotion! <br />Love is you, though not all of you know it; <br />Ye are not love, yet ye always show it! <br /> <br />Faithful creator, heart-longed-for father, <br />Home of our heart-infolded brother, <br />Home to thee all thy glories gather- <br />All are thy love, and there is no other! <br />O Love-at-rest, we loves that roam- <br />Home unto thee, we are coming home!<br /><br />George MacDonald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-is-home/
