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‘Thou Hast Broken My Bonds, O Lord’
(Psalm CXV.7.)
For a Postulant, on her entrance-day into Carmel.
Thou, Jesu! on this day my earthly bonds hast broken. In Mary’s Order old, my soul true goods shall find; And if to-day: “farewell” my quivering lips have spoken To those who loved me best, so dear, so true, so kind, Thou, Lord, wilt be to them far more than I could be; And Thou wilt deign to win some sinful souls through me. |
Jesu! on Carmel I shall dwell — Thy love has called Thy child to that oasis fair; There I desire to serve Thee well, To love Thee there, and then to die, There! yes, my Jesu, there! |
O Jesu! on this day, Thy love my prayer has granted; Before Thy altar throne hereafter ‘tis my part Calmly to wait for heaven, — all pain to bear undaunted, — And, lifting to the rays of Thy white Host my heart, Within that fire of love all self to burn away, And, like a seraph blest, to serve Thee night and day. Ah, Jesu! ‘twill be mine — to dwell, One day, with Thee on high, in heaven’s bright mansions fair There evermore to love Thee well, To love Thee, and no more to die, There! yes, my Jesu, there! |
August 15, 1895.
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