God’s Word in the Old Testament thus runs
“I love them that love me,” and this agrees
With all the clearer teaching of the New.
Not to a cold, indifferent and doubting world
Did Jesus, risen, show Himself alive:
But to those hearts whose love embraced the Lord.
Peter and Mary, women with sad eyes;
Disciples walking, and in the Upper Room;
And then to Thomas with his troubled faith.
It was to Love that Jesus showed Himself!
O Thou, Whose absence makes our spirits mourn,
Come, in Thine Advent glory, Love to cheer!
Till then, make known Thy Presence to each heart,
Which loves, and longs from Thee no more to part.