Takasa # 3 - Ang Pag-Ibig Ni Cristo (The Love Of Christ) Poem by Yehoshua Shim'onai

Si Cristo ay tularan
Sa pag-ibig Niang laan
Ibigin'ng isa't isa
Tulad ng pagsinta Nia
Na sininta Nia tayo
Di man tayo karapat-dapat
At nagmahal si Cristo
Maging sa mga hindi tapat
Sarili Niang buhay' nilaan
Sa krus inalay sarili Nia
Nang mapasating' kabanalan
At karumihan nat'y mawala;
Walang ibang makatatapat
Sa pagmamahal Nia sa lahat
Walang makahihigit dito
Na inibig tayo ni Cristo.

(Let Christ be imitated
In the love that He granted
Let us love one another
Like He loved us so tender
That He cared for us deeply
Though we are very undeserving
And Christ embraced ardently
Even the unfaithful and failing
And His own life on the cross He laid
All that He is He gave to offer
That to us holiness be traded
And from our sins, we will be made clear
As vast as it, none can ever be
That He cared for all amorously
Greater than this there will be thing
That we are so loved by Christ our King.)