In the Name of Love

I knew a Savior, the Second of God,

Who came, and, in love, with ultimate command,

Taught us to bear suffering, the rod

of oppression, withstand

and yet I wonder if, should all to death their life,

losing, one by one, eye by eye,

Should not the Saint and Sinner, too,

Accomplish little, but die?

Still, I know, in loss of life,

Our Savior in this partook.

For in falling down in the name of Love

His own life He forsook.

And why can't we, His Bride,

Lose our eyes for love,

for yet they are only eyes!

Me thinks its for the sake of Pride

That we dare not go dancing blind-

Sightless, yes, this we'd be,

But it isn't for this world we need to see.