No Longer of Him Be It Said

No longer of Him be it said,
“He hath no place to lay His head”;
In every land a constant lamp
Flames by His small and mighty camp.

There is no strange and distant place
That is not gladdened by His face;
And every nation kneels to hail
The Splendor shining through its veil.

Imprisoned for His love of me
He makes my spirit greatly free;
And through my lips that uttered sin
The King of Glory enters in.

Author: Joyce Kilmer

Year: 1918

The poem is from Joyce Kilmer's collection "Trees and Other Poems" (1914) and was later included in wartime and religious anthologies; it is occasionally treated as a hymn text. No other author is known to have claimed it.