Love Is Home

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