The real life—to know
The ways of God. Alas! I never knew.
Then came our Lady of the Sevenfold Light,
Shewed me a distant plan, distinct and clear,
As twilight to the dayspring and the night,
Dividing and uniting even here:
The middle path—life interfused with death—
Pure love; the secret of Elizabeth!
This is my secret—in the man’s delight
To lose that stubborn ecstasy for God!