object:1.mm - Set Me on Fire
author class:Mechthild of Magdeburg
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
Original Language German O soaring eagle! darling lamb! O glowing spark! Set me on fire! How long must I endure this thirst? One hour is already too long, A day is as a thousand years When Thou art absent! Should this continue for eight days I would rather go down to Hell (Where indeed I already am!) Than that God should hide Himself From the loving soul; For that were anguish greater than human death, Pain beyond all pain, The nightingale muse ever sing Because its nature is love; Whoso would take that from it Would brink in death, Ah! Mighty Lord! Look on my need! [2660.jpg] -- from The Mystic in Love: A Treasury of Mystical Poetry, Edited by Shelley Gross <
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