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AMOR MYSTICUS.
FROM THE SPANISH OF SOR MARCELA DE CARPIO.
Let them say to my Lover That here I lie!
The thing of His pleasure, His slave am I.
Say that I seek Him Only for love, And welcome are tortures My pa.s.sion to prove.
Love giving gifts Is suspicious and cold; I have all, my Beloved, When Thee I hold.
Hope and devotion The good may gain; I am but worthy Of pa.s.sion and pain.
So n.o.ble a Lord None serves in vain, For the pay of my love Is my love's sweet pain.
I love Thee, to love Thee,-- No more I desire; By faith is nourished My love's strong fire.
I kiss Thy hands When I feel their blows; In the place of caresses Thou givest me woes.
But in Thy chastising Is joy and peace.
O Master and Love, Let Thy blows not cease.
Thy beauty, Beloved, With scorn is rife, But I know that Thou lovest me, Better than life.
And because thou lovest me, Lover of mine, Death can but make me Utterly Thine.
I die with longing Thy face to see; Oh! sweet is the anguish Of death to me!
