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God measures souls by their capacity / For entertaining his best Angel, Love. / Who loveth most is nearest kin to God, / Who is all Love, or Nothing.
He who sits / And looks out on the palpitating world, / And feels his heart swell in him large enough / To hold all men within it, he is near / His great Creator's standard, though he dwells / Outside the pale of churches, and knows not / A feast-day from a fast-day, or a line / Of Scripture even. What God wants of us / Is that outreaching bigness that ignores / All littleness of aims, or loves, or creeds, / And clasps all Earth and Heaven in its embrace.