O Thou Beloved:
Love eternal,
my whole good,
happiness which has no bounds...
Oh everlasting light,
surpassing all created luminaries,
flash forth Thy lightening from above,
piercing all the most inward parts of my heart.
Make clean,
Make glad,
Make bright,
and make alive my spirit,
with all the powers thereof,
that I may cleave to you
in ecstasies of joy.
Thomas Kempis
