Wesley Corpus

Our love was greater when our light was less? When darkly thro' a glass with servile awe, We first the spiritual commandment saw, Could we not then, our mutual love to show, Thro' fire and water for each other go? We could: we did: in a strange land I stood, And beckon'd thee to cross th' Atlantic flood: With true affection wing'd, thy ready mind, Left country, fame, and ease, and friends behind, And, eager all heav'n's counsels to explore,