Poem April 8, 1950 ISSUE

FREEDOM TO LOVE

Rosemary C. Cobham

Freedom to love! God's heritage for man,Achieved through no great virtue of his own,But his by virtue of his being God's—His image, His reflection, His loved son.

Freedom to love! Freedom for thought to flowIn constant benediction. Spiritual senseDiscerns the true, compels the false to yield,And loves with steady, clear intelligenceThe man God made, by Love divine revealed.Freedom to love, though no apparent needLays claim upon our love. Freedom to seeThat flower and fruitage lie within a seed,And love the seen and unseen equally.Freedom to love with patient, pure desireAll that we long to be, all that we really are.

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