love is

SATB, piano; optional vibraphone, flute, clarinet, and bassoon

1. love is more thicker than forget (e.e. cummings, 1894-1962)
2. love is as strong as death (Song of Songs)
3. love is patient, love is kind (1 Corinthians 13)

Used by permission.

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor will rivers o’erflow it, they cannot quench love.
For love is as strong as death,
Its ardor is severe as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire.

Set me like a seal on your heart,
And like a seal on your arm,
For love is as strong as death,
And like a flame of fire.

Many waters cannot quench love.
Nor will rivers o’erflow it, they cannot quench love.

Love is patient, love is kind,
Love is not jealous.
It does not boast, it is not arrogant,
Love never fails.

Love is patient, love is kind,
It is not selfish, is not provoked,
Love takes not account of wrong.

Love is patient, love is kind,
It does not rejoice in wrong,
But rejoices in the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
Hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.

Faith, hope, love,
But the greatest of these is love.