Now let affection's ardency unseal
The frozen fountains of the human heart.
No more let cold self-centeredness congeal
Impulses which, reluctant at the start,
Yet having started, in resistless streams
Pour forth their richness into all the world.
Perhaps at first the tenderness which gleams
But faintly through awakening thought has swirled
Around one object; but not finding there
A resting place, it ever outward goes,
A flood of loving—kind, impartial, fair—
That blesses every channel where it flows
And so at length, from human to divine,
Expands Love's concept and its outward sign.
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From the January 1961 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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