The Hound of Heaven

In 1890 Francis Thompson, a Roman Catholic poet, described God as “The Hound of Heaven”: 

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; 
I fled Him, down the arches of the years; 
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways 
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears 
I hid from Him, and under running laughter. 
Up vistaed hopes I sped; 
And shot, precipitated, 
Adown Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears. 

Thompson speaks of Jesus as “this tremendous Lover” who pursues “with unhurrying chase, and unperturbed pace, deliberate speed, majestic instancy.”