GOD’S everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?
O true and tender friend, well hast thou spoken.
My heart was restless, weary, sad and sore,
And longed and listened for some heaven-sent token:
And like a child that knows not why it cried,
‘Mid God’s full promises it moaned—unsatisfied!
Yet there it stands. O love, surpassing thought,
So bright, so grand, so clear, so true, so glorious;
Love infinite, love tender, love unsought,
Love changeless, love rejoicing, love victorious!
And this great love for us in boundless store:
God’s everlasting love! What would we more?
Yes, one thing more! To know it ours indeed,
To add the conscious joy of full possession.
O tender grace that stoops to every need!
This everlasting love hath found expression
In loving-kindness, which hath gently drawn
The heart that else astray too willingly had gone.
We thirst for God, our treasure is above;
Earth has no gift our one desire to meet,
And that desire is pledge of His own love.
Sweet question; with no answer! Oh, how sweet!
My heart in chiming gladness o’er and o’er
Sings on — “God’s everlasting love! What wouldst thou
more?”
Frances Ridley Havergal.