There lies in the centre of each man's heart
    A longing and love for the good and pure;
And if but an atom, or larger part,
    I tell you this shall endure---endure---
After the body has gone to decay---
Yea, after the world has passed away.

The longer I live and the more I see
    Of the struggle of souls toward the heights above,
The stronger this truth comes home to me:
    That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love;
A love so limitless, deep, and broad,
That men have renamed it and called it---God.

And nothing that ever was born or evolved,
    Nothing created by light or force,
But deep in its system there lies dissolved
    A shining drop from the Great Love Source;
A shining drop that shall live for aye---
Though kingdoms may perish and stars decay.