I have become a foam-white sea of bliss,

I am a curling wave of God’s delight,

A shapeless flow of happy passionate light,

A whirlpool of the streams of Paradise.

I am a cup of His felicities,

A thunderblast of His golden ecstasy’s might,

A fire of joy upon creation’s height,

I am His rapture’s wonderful abyss.

I am drunken with the glory of the Lord,

I am vanquished by the beauty of the Unborn;

I have looked, alive, upon the Eternal’s face.

My mind is cloven by His radiant sword,

My heart by His beatific touch is torn;

My life is a meteor-dust of His flaming Grace.