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LOVE'S TRINITY

Justice, Love, and Faith are one:
Love resumeth all the three:
Justice—love for what is done,—
Love—the present royalty,—
Faith—the love of what shall be.
Justice vindicates the Past:
Keeps its truth from dying with
The formal life that could not last;
Still maintains the central pith
And the essence of the myth.
Faith is Love of the Unseen,
Of the Future beyond sight:
Faith, above the sky serene
Of present Love, with tireless flight
Cleaves the clouded Infinite.
Love is Truth and Faith in one,—
Love is life's true harmony:
There was Truth in what is gone,
Though it seem not; there shall be
New Truth to eternity.

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Justice, Love, and Faith, are One—
Love, the perfect Trinity:
Love is just to what is gone;
Love, aye present unto Thee,
Trusteth to futurity.