A Love-Note to Ring Out The Old (and ring in the new)

 Below is the full hymn which the stanza above is from;  Something For Thee

 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, 

God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:12

When I ponder Thy love for me

It makes me weigh my love for Thee

And measure on the scale of choice

The worship uttered without voice

When on this trial-riddled sphere

I test the timbre of the tear

Pray that its holy grail would be

Thy love for me, my love for Thee

When Duty's rod is meek and plain

Remind me, God, tis not in vain

If task and toil's necessity

Is like a hymn of praise to thee

  

And when my time on earth is through

And there is nothing left to do

But shed this robe of hope and need

To reap the reward of faith’s seed

Lord, let this thought love’s lot console

And keep my heart fixed on the goal

Where triumph’s song will ever be

My love for thee; Thy love for me

Lord, keep my lips from speaking guile

Nor let the lust of flesh defile

But ever let my hunger be

Thy love for me, my love for Thee

© Janet Martin