the one Thou art

"When I no more can stir my soul to move,

And life is but the ashes of a fire;
When I can but remember that my heart
Once used to live and love, long and aspire,-
Oh, be Thou then the first, the one Thou art;
Be Thou the calling, before all answering love,
And in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire."

— George MacDonald