How shall I follow Him I serve

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