O Lord,
for ever
will I sing;
from age
to age my
mouth shall
proclaim
your faith
fulness.
* Thomas Traherne
English priest and poet
1637 - 1674
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Desire
For giving me desire,
An eager thirst, a burning ardent fire,
A virgin infant flame,
A love with which into the world I came,
An inward hidden heavenly love,
Which in my soul did work and move,
And ever, ever me inflame
With restless longing, heavenly avarice,
That never could be satisfied,
That did incessantly a paradise
Unknown suggest, and something undescribed
Discern, and bear me to it; be
Thy name forever praised by me.
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