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First Line: My lord, my love! In love's unrest
Last Line: Hath not encompassed thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale (1783-1854)


My Lord, my Love! -- in love's unrest
How often have I said:
"Blessed that John who on Thy Breast
Reclined his head."
Thy touch it was, Love's Pelican,
Transformed him from above,
And made him amongst men the man
To show forth holy love!

Yet shall I envy blessed John?
Nay, not so verily,
While Thou indwellest as Thine own
Me, even me:
Upbuilding with Thy Manhood's worth
My frail humanity;
Yea, Thy Divinehood pouring forth,
In fulness filling me.

Me, Lord, Thy temple consecrate,
Me unto Thee alone;
Within my heart set up Thy state
And mount Thy throne:
The Seraphim in ecstasy
Fall prone around Thy house,
For which of them hath tasted Thee
My Manna and my Spouse?

Now Thou dost wear me for a robe
And sway and warm me thro',
I scarce seem lesser than the globe, --
Thy temple too:
O God Who for Thy dwelling place
Dost take delight in me,
The ungirt immensity of space
Hath not encompassed Thee.





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