The Friend of Understanding Love – a poem by Elizabeth Hackley

None but Thee can understand our hearts,
O Friend of Love Divine!
Tho we seek thru all the world for friends,
Whose love will be like Thine!
None but Thee can understand our failures,
And know our deepest need;
Only Thou canst lift us from ourselves,
Our burdened souls relieve.

None but Thee can satisfy our longing,
Our Father and our God!
None but Thee can understand our problems,
The road that we have trod.
Only Thou canst lead us out of darkness
And light in us increase;
Only Thou canst raise us from our death
In self, and give us peace!
(Baha’i Magazine, vol.24, no. 4, July 1933)