Poems (Jordan)/Love
For works with similar titles, see Love.
LOVE
Love ever wears a crimson dress,— For Love is always suffering,—Yet she, with Christly selfishness, Seeks Joy's life in its offering.
Her actions are as seed and these In other life-soils taking root,Bring forth abundant ministries— And Love doth feed upon the fruit.
Love findeth all her gain in loss, And saveth only what she gives;Her crown is shielded by the cross On which she, daily dying, lives.
One thought Love evermore sustains,— Forgetting she has sacrificed,She all forgets, but that her pains Are caused by mothering the Christ!