Thread by @DouayRheims1

WITH A DIVINE INTENTION

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1. Without support, yet well supported,
Though in pitch-darkness, with no ray,
Entirely I am burned away.

My spirit is so freed from every
Created thing, that through the skies,
Above herself, she’s lifted, flies,
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2. And as in a most fragrant reverie,
Only on God her weight applies.

The thing which most my faith esteems
For this one fact will be reported –
Because my soul above me streams
Without support, yet well supported.

3. What though I languish in the shades
As through my mortal life I go,
No over-heavy is my woe
Since if no glow my gloom invades,
With a celestial life I glow.
The love of such a life, I say,
The more benightedly it darkens,
Turns more to that to which it hearkens,

4. Though in pitch-darkness, with no ray.

Since I knew Love, I have been taught
He can perform most wondrous labours.
Though good and bad in me are neighbours
He turns their difference to naught
Then both into Himself, so sweetly,

5. And with a flame so fine and fragrant
Which now I feel in me completely
Reduce my being, till no vagrant
Vestige of my own self can stay.
And wholly I am burned away.
(St John of the Cross)

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