It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

Let bygones be bygones.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Heaven is the presence of God.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.