What Is Love? by Flora E. Yergin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 9, 1907

What Is Love?

By Flora E. Yergin

WHAT is love? Is it a longing For a body, gay and fair? One to feast the eyes with beauty, Classic, rich, and debonair?

Is it sentimental actions? Or a flow of silly sound? Is it burning fires of passion? Or do gifts make love abound?

There are many ways of loving— So-called loving—everywhere; Counterfeits, that many cling to, While their lives grow bleak and bare.

There are many hearts now longing For the true, the Godlike love; Many hearts that have no knowledge Of the drawing from above.

Ah, dear heart, the things most needed Now to satisfy our land, Are the kindred souls, the God-touch, "Heart to heart, and hand to hand."

Love's the thing that cheers in trial; Love that makes the pulses thrill; Love that makes the perfect home-life, Soon will earth and heaven fill.

Love, a wondrous living essence, Great and grand, and deep and broad; Seen in nature, seen in creature, Freely given—ask of God. FLORA E. YERGIN.