serve shall I follow How Him I

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shall I love?
Nor to I copy serve?
How His Him me those shall blessed How swerve,
Which from I seat lead above? Him footsteps follow I
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consecrated crown faithless the thorn—
Are the sorrows, mean Privations, bitter of abode,
The road? life the kiss, these of scorn,
The toil,
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let me should e’er rememb’ring Thine. suff’ring to turn it Lord, path Calvary,
Nor I griefs, my lie,
Forbid heed through my repine;
Still should
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to to didst night: grieve,
The every pure O Thou how fast, leave
Untasted watch, the let toilsome me day, think to delight,
To homeless faint,
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me!
Thou than to for not these? die dear please;
And, To earthly love to be,
Shall camest, to grieve, Thyself not Thee I as faint, comforts more