| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | | II. “God is Love, by Him upholden” | | By John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811–1875) |
| | | GOD is Love, by Him upholden | |
| Hang the glorious orbs of light, | |
| In their language, glad and golden, | |
| Speaking to us day and night | |
| Their great story, | 5 |
| God is Love, and God is Might. | |
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| And the teeming earth rejoices | |
| In that message from above, | |
| With ten thousand thousand voices | |
| Telling back, from hill and grove, | 10 |
| Her glad story, | |
| God is Might, and God is Love. | |
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| With these anthems of creation, | |
| Mingling in harmonious strife, | |
| Christian songs of Christ’s salvation, | 15 |
| To the world with blessings rife, | |
| Tell their story, | |
| God is Love, and God is Life. | |
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| Through that precious Love He sought us, | |
| Wand’ring from His holy ways, | 20 |
| With that precious Life He bought us; | |
| Then let all our future days | |
| Tell this story: | |
| Love is Life—our lives be Praise. | |
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| Gladsome is the theme, and glorious, | 25 |
| Praise to Christ our gracious Head, | |
| Christ, the risen Christ, victorious | |
| Death and hell hath captive led. | |
| Welcome story! | |
| Love lives on, and Death is dead. | 30 |
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| Up to Him let each affection | |
| Daily rise, and round Him move | |
| Our whole lives, one Resurrection | |
| To the Life of life above; | |
| Their glad story, | 35 |
| God is Life, and God is Love. | | | | |
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