THE INWARD LIFE
Oh, sacred union with the Perfect Mind,
Transcendent bliss, which Thou alone canst give;
How blest are they this Pearl of Price who find,
And, dead to earth, have learnt in Thee to live.
Thus in Thine arms of love, O God, I lie,
Lost, and forever lost to all but Thee.
My happy soul, since it hath learnt to die,
Hath found new life in Thine eternity.
Go then, and learn this lesson of the Cross,
And tread the way of saints and prophets trod;
Who, counting life and self and all things loss,
Have found in inward death the life of God.
- Anonymous -
