Dear Greta:
I believe I have found your poem and it is very beautiful. I like it!!
[The Anthem of Love]
by the Apostle Paul - 1st century A.D.
The Anthem of Love
Even if I speak in the tongues of men
and of angels,
if I have not love,
I am but a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Even if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith, so as to carry mountains away,
if I have not love, I am nothing.
Even if I give away all I have,
and deliver my body to be burned,
if I have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends;
as for prophecies, they will pass away;
as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For our knowledge is imperfect
and our prophecy is imperfect;
but when the perfect comes,
the imperfect will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child;
when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see dimly, with imperfect sight,
but then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall understand fully,
even as I have been fully understood.
And so there always remain faith, hope, love abide,
these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
The Apostle Paul, from the first letter to the church at Corinth
(paraphrase: kph) |
