Oh, I so lost in splendor –
Lord increase my obedience to Thee –
My every step and every falter –
You shine brighter for me to see –
But just as all have seen the Sun –
Yet not a single one has touched it –
Just as each being has barely begun –
And seeking, driving near to clutch it.
No one at all, can fully possess –
But oh! How we suffer under the gentle caress.
I am scorched by this love for Thee –
Burnt clean of all other distraction –
I am dipped in eternal torment –
Of insatiable satisfaction –
How long! How long! Before my final close of day? When all else will leave me and I am Yours to stay? I will loiter near the portal, to divine eternal rest –
In anticipation of my death day, my day I may be blessed.
How far! How far! Forever must I strive,
If I wish my soul to be for You,
A fit and faithful bride.
I weep to behold your beauty,
and I am grateful to purgatory –
Let it clean me, and bedeck me –
Let it make me right for Thee –
Even if a thousand years must burn me –
It will pass as the sweetest melody.
Oh! Keep me not from my beloved, one hour more than needed –
Leave me not exposed and uncovered, let Thy power not be ceded.
The challenger who would like to eat my soul,
And throw me out to its tragic abyss –
Knows too well Your seductive love –
And will do anything to prevent this –
This yearning that has lodged in me –
This bliss that leaves me stubborn –
Laugh at me humanity, you who’ve forgotten love –
Cling to your earthly trinkets,
While I leave all, to go above.
Oh burn me in your jealousy –
Make noise in all your rage –
Work hard then for your master,
Use up all your days.
But I will sing of sweetness
Of love so perfect and so pure
I will sink me down in meekness
And find my every cure.
Leave me –
I leave to follow my beloved,
Every footstep I want to copy –
Every treasure of this life is hollow, and uncovered,
Whole kingdoms passing fields of poppies.
For I seek the love eternal – the life that lasts forever –
With sincerest love; perfection, the truest vital treasure.
