And yet…

Have I been so long time with thee

And yet hast thou not known me?

Blessed Master, I have known thee

On the roads of Galilee.

Have I been so long time with thee

On the roads of Galilee:

Yet, my child, hast thou not know me

When I walked upon the sea?

Blessed Master, I have known thee

On the roads and on the sea.

Wherefore then hast thou not known me

Broken in Gethsemane?

I would have thee follow, know me

Thorn-crowned, nailed upon the tree.

Canst thou follow, wilt thou know me

All the way to Calvary?

Amy Carmichael (1867 – 1951), Toward Jerusalem.