Unveiled as kinsman, Love did seek...

Unveiled as kinsman, Love did seek

His wandering brethren, Jew and Greek.

( That God made man in His own image

Did human life of our God fore-speak ).

Nor mask nor vesture was His mien

By man and angels wistly seen,

Nor filmy veil, nor apparition,

God's human life as the Nazarene.

A man the Christ of God earth trod,

And showed to man, and worlds abroad,

The holy, good, and sorrowing Father,

Atoning love, and the heart of God.