When our choir director introduced ‘The Love of God’ by Frederick M. Lehman, 1917, to us the third verse deeply touched my heart. Later I discovered that this moving verse has been touching hearts for nearly a thousand years. It was penned by poet Rabbi Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, 1050. Could we with ink the ocean fill And were the skies of parchment made Were every stalk on earth a quill And every man a scribe by trade To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry Nor could the scroll contain the whole Though stretched from sky to sky
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