The Greatest of These is Love

Pursue love as the greatest virtue;

Behold the most excellent way.

Where talents and gifts will fail you

Love never falls away.

What nullifies natural jealousy

And quells all our selfish pride?

Of all of the virtues only

Three abide:

Hope will reap what faith believes

But love enjoys what these receive.

Of virtues that we partake of

The greatest of these is love.

One counting another’s failures

Unwritten yet in the mind

Uncovering one’s behavior

Forgetting that love is blind.

Exchanges provoke us easily

When short of the loving cure.

When filled with divine love then we see

Love endures.