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[Strangers to Thy love are they]

If ye love Me, keep My commandments. —xiv. 15.

Strangers to Thy love are they
Who call it bondage to obey:

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Be it our delight to prove,
Obedience is the truth of love;
Love which no compulsion knows,
But freely from the Fountain flows,
Returns spontaneous to the skies,
Pure as the streams of paradise.