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.